3. Restricted Work or Job Transfer
When an injury or illness involves restricted work or job transfer but does not involve death or days away from work, you must record the injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log by placing a check mark in column (I) and enter the number of restricted or transferred days in column (L).
Restricted work occurs when, as the result of a work-related injury or illness:
- you keep the employee from performing one or more of the routine functions of their job, or from working the full day that they would otherwise work; or
- a physician or other licensed health care professional (HCP) recommends that the employee not perform one or more of the routine functions of their job, or not work the full workday that they would otherwise work.
For recordkeeping purposes, an employee's routine functions are those work activities the employee regularly performs at least once per week.
A recommended work restriction is recordable only if it affects one or more of the employee's routine job functions. To determine whether this is the case, you must evaluate the restriction in light of the routine functions of the injured or ill employee's job.
A partial day of work is recorded as a day of job transfer or restriction for recordkeeping purposes, except for the day on which the injury occurred or the illness began.
Record job transfer and restricted work cases in the same column (I).
Count days of job transfer or restriction in the same way you count days away from work. The only difference is that, if you permanently assign the injured or ill employee to a job modified or permanently changed to eliminate the routine functions the employee was restricted from performing, you may stop the day count when the modification or change is permanent. You must count at least 1-day of restricted work or job transfer for such cases.
Knowledge Check Choose the best answer for the question.
4-3. A recommended work restriction is recordable only if it affects _____.
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