Laboratory Recordkeeping for Supervisors
Course Description:
Welcome to the training session on laboratory recordkeeping for supervisors. We’ll cover all the basic laboratory safety records you have to maintain concerning the use of hazardous chemicals in the lab. We’ll talk about how to comply with federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, rules for recording workplace injuries and illnesses; maintaining safety data sheets, or SDSs, and chemical inventories; maintaining employee exposure and monitoring records related to occupational chemical exposures; and certifying that you have provided personal protective equipment training, or PPE, training, to employees who use PPE. You’ll want to have all these records on hand if an OSHA inspector visits your facility.
We’ll also cover some laboratory recordkeeping guidelines that, though not required by law, will help you document compliance with other OSHA rules related to laboratory safety.
Why “Laboratory Recordkeeping for Supervisors” Matters:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Properly document your Chemical Hygiene Plan
- Properly record work-related injuries and illnesses
- Maintain Safety Data Sheets and chemical inventories, and ensure employee access to them when needed
- Maintain employee exposure and monitoring records related to chemical exposures
- Maintain written certification that employees have been trained to use PPE
- Keep good compliance-oriented records of laboratory inspections, trainings, safe work practices/procedures, and inventories of usage for high-risk hazardous chemicals
Key Points:
You must keep the following records if you are classified as a general industry facility with more than 10 employees, you have hazardous chemicals or other harmful physical agents, and if any of your employees use PPE:
- CHP,
- OSHA 300 injury and illness records,
- SDSs or chemical list,
- Medical and exposure monitoring records,
- PPE training certification, and
- Respiratory protection medical evaluation and fit test records.
