Message #25462

[countrigal]

Somewhere you should have a book or site that lists OSHA's requirements for your company.  As a med facility, we have quite a few that we must contend with (in addition to other inspection facilities) and that's what my office lives and breathes for.  We have an OSHA manual that we can pull our required information from, what the regulation is, what it means, how to meet it, etc.  If you don't have one, look into putting one together (after meeting these deadlines of course).  You can normally get a report from OSHA that lists what you passed and failed on, giving you the requlations that you need to be aware of, which means you should be able to get those standards off their website.  This will normally tell you how to meet the intent of the standard depending on the type of company you are.  If you know what the standard is, look on their website and see if that doesn't tell you the intent and what they'll be looking for as far as justification/proof that it's been done.

The most important thing... relax.  You'll probably pay a fine again and need to follow through on corrections this time, but it was a learning experience (costly, but one that is learned).  Andrea's links should prove extremely useful.

CountriGal
Deskdemon Editorial Board Member