Annual Requirements - Safety

As employers, your first step in the development and maintenance of an effective safety program is "management commitment" which includes:

Designating a person to oversee the safety program
Perform regular assessments of workplace hazards
Maintain and upgrade your current safety program to keep it in compliance
Provide valuable site-specific training
Address the annual requirements of selected safety standards

Employer Responsibilities

When a safety compliance program is under development and then finally reaches the "finish line", you may assume that your responsibility under the applicable regulation is complete. Not so. It is your responsibility to make sure that all programs are current including addressing the tasks of regulations that do have mandatory annual requirements. The requirement due dates will vary from location to location pending the completion of the original written program. Are you administering to these annual requirements?

The Alpha Terra safety staff is well versed in what is required to keep your programs up-to- date and we make sure that you are aware of these requirements in a timely manner. With Alpha Terra, you are not treated as just another number, but as a valued relationship. Alpha Terra personnel can assist you with these annual requirements or, you may decide to take on this responsibility yourself. How you choose to do it is up to you but, one way or another, it must get done.

Mandatory Annual Requirements

Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illness

You must use the OSHA 300, 300-A, and 301 forms, or equivalent forms, for recordable injuries and illnesses. The 300-A form, known as the summary, must be posted no later than February 1 of the year following the year covered by the records and keep the posting in place until April 30.

Bloodborne Pathogens

Exposure Control Plan must be reviewed and updated at least annually while training for all employees shall be provided within 1-year of their previous training.

Confined Space Entry

Cancelled permits must be reviewed within 1-year after each entry and revise the program as necessary and ensure that affected employees practice making permit space rescues at least once every 12 months.

Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout)

Conduct a periodic inspection of the energy control procedure at least annually to ensure that the procedure and requirements of the standard are being followed.

Hearing Conservation

Institute a training program for all employees who are exposed to noise at or above an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 decibels, and shall ensure employee participation in such program. The training program shall be repeated annually for each employee included in the hearing conservation program.

Respiratory Protection

Provide effective training to employees who are required to use respirators. The training must be comprehensive, understandable, and recur annually, and more often if necessary. Annual fit testing of respirators is also required.

Additional Annual Training and Inspection Requirements

Scaffolds
Ladders
Manlifts
Annual Audiograms
First Aid Kits
Powered Industrial Trucks
Hoisting Equipment
Employee Alarm Systems
Multi-piece Rim Wheels

Alpha Terra project management staff can assist you with management oversight of your annual requirements by acting as your Part-time Safety Coordinator. We will provide you with the comfort knowing that your annual requirements are being addressed professionally and according to regulatory requirements.

Project Summaries

Part-Time Safety Coordinator
Multi-Community Success (City of Juneau and Hustisford, WI)
Long-term Community Relationship (Village of Mt. Horeb, WI)
Long-term Utility Relationship (Village of New Glarus, WI)
Sheboygan County Highway (Sheboygan, WI)
Safety Coordinator for Citywide Entities (Watertown, WI)
Citywide Safety Coordinator (Beaver Dam, WI)
Dodge County Highway Department (Dodge County, WI)

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