OSHA Training Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District…Dublin, CA (PRWEB) November 13, 2014 The OSHA Training Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District, the only authorized OSHA Training Institute Education Center in Northern California, has announced the Occupational Safety and Health Administrations updated rule requiring employers to notify OSHA when an employee is killed on the job or suffers a work-related hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. The new rule, which also updates the list of employers partially exempt from OSHA record-keeping requirements, takes effect January 1, 2015, for workplaces under federal OSHA jurisdiction. Workplace injuries and fatalities are completely preventable, says Julia Dozier, Director of the OSHA Training Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. OSHAs new requirements are an important step forward in holding employers accountable for preventing them. The updated rule will also improve access by employers, employees, researchers and the public to information about workplace safety and health and increase their ability to identify and abate serious hazards. Under the revised rule, employers will be required to notify OSHA of work-related fatalities within eight hours, and work-related in-patient hospitalizations, amputations or losses of an eye within 24 hours. All employers covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act, including those who are exempt from maintaining injury and illness records, are required to comply with OSHAs new severe injury and illness reporting requirements. In addition to the new reporting requirements, OSHA has also updated the list of industries that, due to relatively low occupational injury and illness rates, are exempt from the requirement to routinely keep injury and illness records. The new rule maintains the exemption for any employer with 10 or fewer employees, regardless of their industry classification, from the routine record-keeping requirements. The OSHA Training Center is offering OSHA 7845 – Record-keeping Rule Seminar for employers and others interested in learning more about OSHAs updated record-keeping requirements. About the OSHA Training Center The OSHA Training Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District offers high quality Occupational Safety & Health Administration standards-based training for construction, maritime and general industry at its Center in Dublin, California, as well as locations throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam. Programs offered include OSHA safety standards, Outreach Trainer courses, Cal/OSHA standards curriculum, environmental courses and customized on-site safety training. For more information, including a complete course schedule, visit the OSHA Training Center website or call (866) 936-OSHA (6742).
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:37:37 +0000