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708 OSHA Recordkeeping Basics
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Covered Employees

You must record on the OSHA 300 Log the recordable injuries and illnesses of all employees on your payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly, salary, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers.

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All employees on the payroll are covered.

You also must record the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on your payroll if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. If your business is organized as a sole proprietorship or partnership, the owner or partners are not considered employees for recordkeeping purposes.

Covered employees include:

  • Self-employed persons: You also must record the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on your payroll if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. If your business is organized as a sole proprietorship or partnership, the owner or partners are not considered employees for recordkeeping purposes.
  • Temporary help agencies: Record the injuries and illnesses to workers from temporary help agencies or employee leasing services only if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis.
  • Contractor employees: If a contractor's employee is under the day-to-day supervision of the contractor, the contractor is responsible for recording the injury or illness. If you supervise the contractor employee's work on a day-to-day basis, you must record the injury or illness.
Record the injury once: You and the temporary help service, employee leasing service, personnel supply service, or contractor should coordinate your efforts to make sure that each injury and illness is recorded only once. Either on:
  1. your OSHA 300 Log if you provide day-to-day supervision, or
  2. on the other employer's OSHA 300 Log if that company provides day-today supervision.

Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.

3-4. Self-employed persons, sole proprietors, employers with temporary employees, contractors, and employers must record employee injuries and illnesses if _____.