Does "Subpart B - Scope" Apply to You?

This will be yes for employers that are required to maintain the OSHA 300 Log. Subpart B provides the scope for the recordkeeping standards. According to the scope, all employers covered by the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) are covered by these standards. Most employers do not have to keep OSHA injury and illness records unless OSHA or the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) informs them in writing that they must keep records. However, according to reporting fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye as a result of work-related incidents to OSHA, all employers covered by the OSH Act must report to OSHA any work-related incident that results in a fatality, the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees, an employee amputation, or an employee loss of an eye.

Partial exemption for employers with 10 or fewer employees provides for partial exemption based on size for maintaining the OSHA logs while partial exemption for establishments in certain industries provides exemptions for certain industries based on North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) found in Appendix A - partially exempt industries. Keeping records for more than one agency allows for other agency records to be used to meet the recordkeeping requirements.