2 - Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements, Part 1904

Abstract

This chapter summarizes occupational injury and illness records, which have several distinct functions regardless of the level of employer control or non-control involved. An injury or illness is an abnormal condition or disorder, and medical treatment is the management and care of a patient to combat disease or disorder. A physician or other licensed health care professional is an employee, who has a legally permitted scope of practice. For record-keeping purposes, an employee's routine functions are those work activities that the employee regularly performs at least once per week. Injuries or illnesses will not be considered work related if they involve symptoms that surface at work but result solely from a non-work-related event or exposure that occurs outside the work environment. The Record-keeping system is only intended to capture cases that are caused by conditions or exposures arising in the work environment.