Got all the OSHA docs? by Dr. Claudio Pasian (The Ohio State University) A short time ago, an OSHA inspector visited a grower and informed him that his business had been randomly chosen for a records audit in order to assess the quality of data collected from employers. The OSHA compliance officer then informed the grower to furnish six items: Employee roster(s) OSHA 200 Log (which is supposed to be posted) Sample of worker compensation first reports of injury Sample of employee medical records Total number of hours worked by employees Average number of persons employed Additional documents were requested during the visit. The question is: If an inspector came to your business, would you be ready? Do you have all the paper work listed above? Do you have the nurse/doctor/clinic logs? Do you have the company first aid reports, accident reports, insurer accident reports? How about the within-plant employee transfer records and the absentee records? You will need your Risk Number and your Federal I.D. number. You will need the number oh hours your employees worked for the year being audited. If you do not have this number, the inspector will give you a formula to figure it out. For the formula you will need: total number of employees employed that year and total number of full time employees for that year. To grow plants is wonderful and complex in today's regulatory environment. Successful commercial operations require much more than sound practices in managing fertility, pests, etc.