Emergency Plan Manual

42 * using temporary immobilization devices while transporting an accident victim (splints, slings, neck collars, or back boards). * drilling a fingernail or toenail to relieve pressure, or draining fluids from blisters; * using eye patches; * Using simple irrigation or a cotton swab to remove foreign bodies not embedded in or adhered to the eye; * using irrigation, tweezers, cotton swab or other simple means simple means to remove splinters or foreign material from areas other than the eye; * using finger guards; * using massages; * drinking fluids to relieve heat stress How do you decide if the case involved restricted work? Restricted work activity occurs when, as the result of a work-related injury or illness, an employer or health care professional keeps, or recommends keeping, an employee from doing the routine functions of his or her job or from working the full workday that the employee would have been scheduled to work before the injury or illness occurred. Count the number of calendar days the employee was on restricted work activity or was away from work as result of the recordable injury or illness. Do not count the day on which the injury or illness occurred in this number. Begin counting days from the day after the incident occurs. If a single injury or illness involved both days away from work and days of restricted work activity, enter the total number of days for each. You may stop counting days of restricted work activity or days away from work once the total of either or the combination of both reaches 180 days. Under what circumstances should you NOT enter the employee’s name on the OSHA Form 300? You must consider the following types of injuries or illnesses to be privacy concern cases: * an injury or illness to an intimate body part or to the reproductive system, * an injury or illness resulting from a sexual assault, * a mental illness, * a case of HIV infection, hepatitis, or tuberculosis, * a needlestick injury or cut from a sharp object that is contaminated with blood or other potentially infectious material (see 29 CFR Part 1904.8 for definition), and * other illnesses if the employee independently and voluntarily requests that his or her name not be entered on the log. You must not enter the employee’s name on the OSHA 300 Log for these cases. Instead, enter “privacy case” in the space normally used for the employee’s name. You must keep a separate, confidential list of the case numbers and employee names for the establishment’s privacy concern cases so that you can update the cases and provide information to the government if asked to do so.