If officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) drop in unannounced at one of your plants, you will need to make sure you can demonstrate compliance with OSHA regulations.

One essential to getting through this process without fines or citations is to have ready access to your company’s OSHA 300 log. These forms are used to record OSHA-reportable work-related injuries or illnesses among your staff. So what qualifies as an OSHA-recordable incident? Don Bock, an industry risk-management veteran and consultant to TRSA’s Hygienically Clean certification program, says that any illness or injury that requires a visit ...