Covid-19 & vaccines: OSHA recordability scenarios
Is it recordable? 10 OSHA recordkeeping scenarios about covid-19 & vaccines, with answers and OSHA references.
COVID Vaccine Injury
An employee is heavily pressured by their employer to get the COVID19 vaccine. As a result of the vaccine, the employee experienced a…
RecordableAichmophobia
An employer offers a financial reward of $200 to take a voluntary covid vaccine. An employee loses consciousness before the needle…
RecordableCOVID-19 Vaccine Injury
An employee receives the COVID-19 vaccine as required by their employer. Due to a negative reaction to the vaccine, they become…
RecordableInjured at a Customer's Home
A North Pole Inc. employee begins work delivering presents. He takes a break from delivering presents to eat some milk and cookies.…
RecordableReinfected with New COVID-19 Strain
An employee who previously had a recordable by contracting COVID-19 at work from a coworker is reinfected with a new coronavirus…
RecordableCOVID-19 Hospitalization
An employee is hospitalized for COVID-19 after he begins feeling ill at work. No one else in the office has tested positive for…
Not recordableHand Sanitizer Burn (Static)
A company’s COVID-19 contingency plan requires employees to clean their hands on a stringent basis. Antibacterial soap is made readily…
RecordableBanking Job COVID-19 Exposure
A large bank begins educating their lobby employees on the characteristics of the COVID-19 virus. They place signs in the lobby…
RecordableCOVID-19 Self-Medication Injury
At a fish tank cleaner manufacturer, an employee insists the fish tank cleaner can act as a medication to prevent COVID-19 infection due…
Not recordableCOVID-19 (Coronavirus)
An employee becomes ill at work and is taken to a clinic for evaluation. The employee is confirmed infected with the COVID-19…
Not recordable