Question: Once an employer has recorded a case involving days away from work, restricted work or medical treatment and the employee has returned to his regular work or has received the course of recommended medical treatment, is it permissible for the employer to

Answer:

The employer must make an initial decision about the need for days away from work, a work restriction, or medical treatment based on the information available, including any recommendation by a physician or other licensed health care professional. Where the employer receives contemporaneous recommendations from two or more physicians or other licensed health care professionals about the need for days away, a work restriction, or medical treatment, the employer may decide which recommendation is the most authoritative and record the case based on that recommendation. Once the days away from work or work restriction have occurred or medical treatment has been given, however, the employer may not delete the Log entry because of a physician's recommendation, based on a year-end review of the Log, that the days away, restriction or treatment were unnecessary.

For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.

Question: Is the use of a rigid finger guard considered first aid?

Answer:

Yes, the use of finger guards is always first aid.

For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.

Question: Item N on the first aid list is "drinking fluids for relief of heat stress." Does this include administering intravenous (IV) fluids?

Answer:

No. Intravenous administration of fluids to treat work-related heat stress is medical treatment.

For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.

Question: Are surgical glues used to treat lacerations considered "first aid?"

Answer:

No, surgical glue is a wound closing device. All wound closing devices except for butterfly and steri strips are by definition "medical treatment," because they are not included on the first aid list.

For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.

Question: An employee hurts his or her left arm and is told by the doctor not to use the left arm for one week. The employee is able to perform all of his or her routine job functions using only the right arm (though at a slower pace and the employee is never requ

Answer:

No. If the employee is able to perform all of his or her routine job functions (activities the employee regularly performs at least once per week), the case does not involve restricted work. Loss of productivity is not considered restricted work.

For more information, explore OSHA's Recordkeeping Requirements.

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  Salini-Impregilo/Healy Joint Venture: Grant of Permanent Variance

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 91 (Monday, May 11, 2020)]
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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 27, 2019)]
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[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 94 (Wednesday, May 15, 2019)]
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