The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has revised the industrial classification index relating to partially exempt and nonexempt industries for recordkeeping purposes. I am a small business owner with fewer than 10 employees. Will I now have to maintain the Log 300?

Cal/OSHA has not yet determined whether it will adopt these changes for California employers. 

OSHA’s revision to the recordkeeping requirements did not alter the “10 or fewer employee” partial exemption, which California will also maintain. OSHA’s changes would also require current partially exempt industries to maintain the Log 300 and post a 300A summary annually.

Also not affected are businesses in certain low-hazard industries that have been exempted from routinely keeping the 300 log and associated documents.

Since 1982, this list has been made up of businesses in the retail trade; finance, insurance and real estate; and the services industry if the three-year average lost workday case rate for their major industry group was 75% or less of the overall three-year average of the lost workday case rate for private industry.

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