Utah Local Governments Trust reviews OSHA recordkeeping rules, reporting deadlines for Utah public employers

Jason (last name not specified), training presenter for the Utah Local Governments Trust, reviewed OSHA recordkeeping responsibilities for Utah public employers during a Trust training session, advising when to log injuries, when to report them to UOSH, and how to post annual summaries.

The presentation explained why employers keep OSHA records — it is a legal requirement and a tool to track incidents for prevention — and clarified the difference between federal OSHA and Utah Occupational Safety and Health (UOSH), the state program that enforces OSHA standards in Utah.

Jason said employers should “go to the horse’s mouth and see what the regulation says,” referring attendees to 29 CFR 1904 for the federal recordkeeping standard and noting that Utah’s UOSH administers those standards in the state. He drew a distinction between “recordable” injuries that must be entered on an OSHA 300 log and “reportable” incidents that must be phoned in to UOSH.

Key requirements summarized in the training included:

- Which incidents are recordable and which are reportable: recordable injuries go on the OSHA 300 log;…