Mandatory OSHA Survey
All newspapers with 60 or more employees will receive a mandatory accidentand injury survey from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration in thenear future. This is a national program. The ruling was issued in February 1997, and itwas published in the February 11, 1997, Federal Register. Last year, federal and state OSHA officers conducted inspections at 80,000work sites. OSHA hopes to target the worst offenders with the current surveyinformation. |
The form will request the number of workers at your facility, the number ofhours they worked, and injury and illness statistics for 1995 and 1996. Theinformation can be readily obtained from your OSHA 200 Log.
You will have 30 days after receiving the form to complete it and mail itback to OSHA. Failure to do so will allow OSHA to conduct an on-site recordsinspection or issue a subpoena for the records.
For more information on the new reporting requirement, call Dave Schmidt orJim Maddax of OSHA's Office of Statistics at (202) 219-6463, or NAA IndustrialHygienist Allen Cooley at (703) 902-1834, e-mail coola@naa.org.