CONN-OSHA Answers Your Safety Questions

Welcome to our monthly column featuring CONN-OSHA experts answering some of the most commonly asked safety questions from CBIA member companies.

Most of the responses from Catherine Zinsser, a CONN-OSHA occupational safety training specialist, will be on recordkeeping since that is the focus of most questions she fields.

But if you’d like to ask her a question on another topic, please email CBIA’s Phillip Montgomery.

He will treat all questions confidentially and never share any identifying company information with CONN-OSHA or anyone else.

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Q: In a case where the employee is working restricted duty, and takes days off for personal reasons, do we still include those days in our total? This employee is working modified duty through his next doctor’s appointment which falls after the allotted vacation time.

A: Yes, in this situation you would include the vacation days taken in the day count. 

You must include all calendar days until the date the physician or other licensed health care professional recommends that the employee return to work.

Q: Is ‘total hours worked by all employees’ on Form 300A actual work time after leave deductions?

A: Yes, this figure should reflect the actual number of hours worked by employees. 

Include hours worked by salaried, hourly, part-time and seasonal workers, as well as hours worked by other workers subject to day to day supervision by your establishment (e.g., temporary help services workers). 

Do not include vacation, sick leave, holidays, or any other non-work time, even if employees were paid for it. 

If your establishment keeps records of only the hours paid or if you have employees who are not paid by the hour, please estimate the hours that the employees actually worked.

Q: How do I record a case in which a worker is injured or became ill on the day before scheduled time off such as a holiday, a planned vacation, or a temporary plant closing?

A: You need to record a case of this type only if you receive information from a physician or other health care professional indicating that the employee should not have worked, or should have performed only restricted work, during the scheduled time off. 

If so, you must record the injury or illness as a case with days away from work or restricted work, and enter the day counts, as appropriate.

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For more information, contact CBIA’s Phillip Montgomery, (860.244.1982).