OSHA Forms for Recording Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses

What are OSHA Forms?

OSHA Forms are intended to assist employers, employees, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration agents to assess the level of particular workplace safeness, define all potential sources of health hazards, and to ensure the provision of the appropriate level of precautionary measures to prevent those hazards.

OSHA Forms are split into parts. Form 300 provides the list of work-related hazards, injuries, and illnesses, and defines the severity of each case. Form 300A provides the statistical report upon the total number of cases within each category of hazards.

What I need OSHA Forms for?

OSHA Forms are instruments for employers that allow them to record and define work-related hazards that may result in any illnesses that lead to treatment beyond first aid, death, days off work, special treatment, etc.

OSHA Forms must be mailed to OSHA every 5 years. Applicants must keep a copy of the filled form within 5 years after submission and send a yearly Summary to OSHA by February 1. 

Filling out OSHA Forms

OSHA Form 300 must be filled at any time when the injury of an employee occurs. The record must be done as soon as possible. At the end of each year, the Summary from the OSHA Form 300 must be filled out with information from the Log of the OSHA Form 300 and OSHA Form 301. All fields must be filled with the fullest information to prevent any negative consequences.

The number of the filled forms must be equal to the number of physical locations of the organization. The employer is not required to send the Log anywhere if the OSHA office doesn’t forward a request for that. The Summary of Form 300 is obligatory to be sent to the nearest OSHA agency before February 1.

Organizations that work with OSHA Forms

Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the US.