1904. 7 - General recording criteria. | Occupational Safety and Health . . . You must consider an injury or illness to meet the general recording criteria, and therefore to be recordable, if it results in any of the following: death, days away from work, restricted work or transfer to another job, medical treatment beyond first aid, or loss of consciousness
INJURY CLASSIFICATION DEFINITIONS - Horizon Power A Restricted Work Injury is an injury that meets Medical Treatment classification but a restriction to normal duties is required to be applied Requires treatment beyond the scope of normal first aid treatment such as sutures or the issuing of prescribed medication Intravenous saline drip for treatment of heat stress
OSHA’s Recordkeeping Part 1: Injury Illness Classification Anytime a workplace injury or illness results one or more of the following situations, the injury is automatically classified as a recordable Death; Days away from work; Restricted work or transfer to another job; Loss of consciousness; A note about “restricted work”: Not all work restrictions constitute “restricted work”
Classifications of Workplace Injuries –Why are we Deluding Ourselves? · Restricted work injuries (RWI) which are injuries resulting in some restrictions of duty or work hours lasting less than one week Neither of these non-reportable categories are properly and uniformly recorded or used at the national level for setting any meaningful reporting standards, targets and requirements for employers
Determining if a work-related injury or illness resulted in restricted . . . Section 1904 7(a) of OSHA's recordkeeping regulation provides that employers must consider an injury or illness to meet the general recording criteria, and therefore to be recordable, if it results in restricted work or transfer to another job