What’s the Concern?
I see PPS is continuing their tradition of transparency. From the November 29, 2011 Administrators Connection:
Changed Procedure Regarding OSHA 300 Log Reports in January
Our schools are used to receiving OSHA 300 log reports from Risk Management in January and posting this information. PPS is not required to do this in our school buildings. Therefore, Risk Management will not be sending schools this information. If an OSHA inspector should ask to see this information in your school please remind her/him that public schools are exempt from this rule per OSHA SIC Code 82. Should this prompt a disagreement at your school please ask the inspector to contact me directly.
For PPS facilities that are not schools, i.e., BESC, Rice, etc. Risk Management will send the OSHA 300 log information in January and ask you to post it at that time.
Please contact me if you have a question about this changed procedure.
Benson Meyers, Risk Manager, 503.916.3204, bmeyers@pps.net
Is there something to hide?
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A safety professional friend of mine says, “There is no good reason for them not to post that information, unless they are hiding something, or just plain lazy.” Hmm… which is it, do you think? A bit of both? Trying to save paper?
Not Good at Staying Anonymous, I’m curious about whether the Risk Manager is correct about the district not being “Required” to post it. The law says protect a few adults in some buildings but not occupants of buildings that house a large number of children? What’s the purpose of posting at the BESC?
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