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['Safety and Health Programs and Training', 'Machine Guarding', 'Tool Safety', 'Wheel and Rim Servicing', 'HAZWOPER', 'Electrical Safety', 'Hazardous Materials Safety - OSHA', 'Fire Protection and Prevention', 'Fall Protection', 'Lockout/Tagout', 'Bloodborne Pathogens', 'Welding and Cutting', 'Materials Handling and Storage', 'Personal Protective Equipment', 'Toxic and Hazardous Substances - OSHA', 'Forklifts and Powered Trucks', 'Cranes, Lifts, and Scaffolding', 'Industrial Hygiene', 'Specialized Industries', 'Walking Working Surfaces']
['Ladders', 'Toxic and Hazardous Substances - OSHA', 'Telecommunication Utilities', 'Hydrogen', 'Lockout/Tagout', 'Aerial Lifts', 'Tool Safety', 'Housekeeping', 'Materials Handling and Storage', 'Mobile Cranes', 'Fire Extinguishers', 'Acrylonitrile', 'Falling Object Protection', 'Underwater Diving', 'Wheel and Rim Servicing', 'Electrical Safety', 'Walking Working Surfaces', 'Pulp and Paper Mills', 'Electric Power Utilities', 'Forklifts and Powered Trucks', 'Bloodborne Pathogens', 'Radiation', 'Overhead Cranes', 'Arsenic', 'Bakery Equipment', 'Ventilation', 'Bloodborne Pathogens Prevention and Control', 'Asbestos', 'Welding and Cutting', 'Derricks', 'Beryllium', 'Dipping and Coating', 'Powered Platforms', 'Process Safety Management', 'Crystalline Silica', 'Coke Oven Emissions', 'Personal Protective Equipment', 'Logging Operations', 'Fall Protection', 'Machine Guarding', 'Sawmills', 'Safety and Health Programs and Training', 'HAZWOPER', 'Compressed Gases', 'Fire Protection and Prevention', 'Grain Handling', 'Respiratory Protection', 'Flammable Liquids', 'Explosives and Blasting']
04/14/2026
At a Glance
Required General Industry OSHA Recordkeeping At-A-Glance
RegSenseAerial LiftsHAZWOPERSafety and Health Programs and TrainingMachine GuardingWelding and CuttingOverhead CranesForklifts and Powered TrucksBakery EquipmentHydrogenRespiratory ProtectionFire ExtinguishersFire Protection and PreventionExplosives and BlastingProcess Safety ManagementCranes, Lifts, and ScaffoldingSafety and Health Programs and TrainingPersonal Protective EquipmentElectrical SafetyLockout/TagoutAt-a-GlanceFall ProtectionUnderwater DivingForklifts and Powered TrucksWalking Working SurfacesFlammable LiquidsTool SafetyIndustrial HygieneCompressed GasesWalking Working SurfacesElectric Power UtilitiesHousekeeping
General industry recordkeeping requirements
* Indicates annual requirements
| Who’s covered: | All employers |
| When: | Time frame is not specified |
| What records: | Post OSHA form 3165 notifying employees of rights and responsibilities under the OSH Act |
| Who’s covered: | Employers who receive citations for violations of OSHA regulations |
| When: | On receiving a citation |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who receive citations for violations of OSHA regulations |
| When: | Within 10 calendar days after the abatement date |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with 11 or more employees (except listed low-hazard industries) |
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| What records: | OSHA forms 300, 301, 300A, and privacy list (if one exists) |
| Who’s covered: | Employers covered by the OSH Act of 1970 |
| When: | Within eight hours of an employee death from a work-related incident. Within 24 hours of an in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees, amputation, or loss of eye from a work-related incident |
| What records: | Report the following information to OSHA:
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| Who’s covered: | Four categories of employers are covered:
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| When: | Establishments that are required to routinely submit will have to submit to OSHA or the OSHA designee all of the required information by March 2 of the year after the calendar year covered by the form or forms (for example, by March 2, 2026, for the forms covering 2025). Other establishments that receive a notice from OSHA by mail will be required to submit data as directed. Visit https://www.osha.gov/injuryreporting/, OSHA’s Injury Tracking Application (ITA) webpage. As explained there, new login procedures (using Login.gov) took effect in October 2022. |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who use rope descent systems. |
| When: | Before any rope descent system is used. Every 10 years, as necessary. |
| What records: | Before any rope descent system is used, the building owner must inform the employer, in writing, that the building owner has identified, tested, certified, and maintained each anchorage so it is capable of supporting at least 5,000 pounds (268 kg), in any direction, for each employee attached. The information must be based on an annual inspection by a qualified person and certification of each anchorage by a qualified person, as necessary, and at least every 10 years. Editor’s Note: OSHA issued a November 20, 2017, enforcement memo, “Enforcement Guidance for General Industry Rope Descent System (RDS) Anchorage Requirements,” which offers flexibility for 1910.27(b)(1). The agency also issued letters of interpretation on 1910.27. See https://tinyurl.com/4ur8sbr8. |
| Who’s covered: | Employers required by a specific OSHA standard to have an emergency action plan |
| When: | Time frame is not specified |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers required by a specific OSHA standard to have a fire prevention plan |
| When: | Time frame is not specified |
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Compliance Point
If you determine that an emergency action plan or fire prevention plan is required for your warehouse, there’s a loophole you need to know about. According to OSHA, the emergency action plan and the fire prevention plan must be in writing; however, an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plans orally to employees. Those two plans are the only general industry plans with such an option. All other plans are required to be in writing for general industry if applicable to your company, and you have one or more workers.
Compliance Point
If you determine that an emergency action plan or fire prevention plan is required for your retail establishment, there’s a loophole you need to know about. According to OSHA, the emergency action plan and the fire prevention plan must be in writing; however, an employer with 10 or fewer employees may communicate the plans orally to employees. Those two plans are the only general industry plans with such an option. All other plans are required to be in writing for general industry if applicable to your company, and you have one or more workers.
| Who’s covered: | Employers that use and/or maintain powered platforms |
| When: | Maintenance inspection and test every 30 days |
| What records: | Certification record has to include:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees exposed to noise that equals or exceeds an 8-hour time-weighted average of 85 dBA |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with liquefied hydrogen systems |
| When: | Installation of equipment |
| What records: | Maintain legible instructions at the operating location of installations requiring the user to operate equipment |
| Who’s covered: | Employers with processes involving certain chemicals, flammable liquids or gases, or hydrocarbon fuels |
| When: | Time frame is not specified |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers whose operations involve employee exposure to hazardous substances |
| When: | Time frame is not specified |
| What records: | Written safety and health program and site-specific safety and health plan for employees involved in hazardous waste operations that includes methods to:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees who have to use personal protective equipment |
| When: | Employees must demonstrate an understanding of proper equipment selection and use prior to assignment |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with operations exposing employees to air contaminants:
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| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Retain written documentation regarding:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers whose operations require employee entry into permit-required confined spaces |
| When: | Retain cancelled entry permits for at least one year to allow program evaluation |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers whose employees service and maintain machines and equipment in which the unexpected energization or start up, or the release of stored energy, could cause injury |
| When: | Varies - Annual certification of periodic inspections; other timeframes not specified |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who have established formal fire brigades |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Maintain a written statement or policy which establishes the:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who use portable fire extinguishers as part of their fire protection plan |
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| What records: | Record and retain the annual maintenance date for one year after the last entry or the life of the shell, whichever is less |
| Who’s covered: | Employers who must install automatic sprinkler systems to under a specific OSHA standard |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who must install fixed extinguishing systems under a specific OSHA standard |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees who operate powered industrial trucks |
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| What records: | Certify that each forklift operator has been trained and evaluated, including:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with overhead and gantry cranes, including semi-gantry, cantilever gantry, wall cranes, storage bridge cranes, and others with the same functional characteristics |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with crawler cranes, locomotive cranes, wheel mounted cranes, and others with the same fundamental characteristics |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who have derricks |
| When: | At least once a month |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers using slings in conjunction with other material handling equipment for the moving material by hoisting |
| When: | Inspect all fastenings and attachments:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with mechanical power presses |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with forging machines |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Keep certification of periodic and regular maintenance and inspections |
| Who’s covered: | Employers who perform welding operations |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Fire protection - before cutting or welding is permitted, the area must be inspected and authorization to proceed must be granted, preferably in the form of a written permit |
| Who’s covered: | Employers who perform welding operations using oxygen-fuel gas |
| When: | No time frame specified |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers who perform resistance welding |
| When: | No time frame specified |
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| Who’s covered: | All logging operations as defined 1910.266 |
| When: | No time frame specified |
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| Who’s covered: | Telecommunications centers and telecommunications field centers located outdoors or in building spaces used for such field installations |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers of generation, transmission, and distribution installations of electric utilities and equivalent installations of industrial establishments, and line-clearance tree-trimming operations |
| When: | Procedure inspected at least annually |
| What records: | Certify procedures for control of potentially hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) including:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers involved in commercial diving operations |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees exposed to airborne asbestos in excess of 0.1 fiber per cubic centimeter of air over an 8 hour time-weighted average |
| When: | When asbestos exposure exceeds exposure limits |
| What records: | Maintain records of:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers whose employees experience occupational exposure to toxic substances or harmful physical agents |
| When: | As specified below |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees having occupational exposure to beryllium in all forms, compounds, and mixtures in general industry, except (1) articles, as defined in the Hazard Communication Standard, that contain beryllium and that the employer does not process, (2) materials containing less than 0.1% beryllium by weight where the employer has objective data demonstrating that employee exposure to beryllium will remain below the action level as an 8-hour TWA under any foreseeable conditions. |
| When: | When employees are exposed to beryllium at concentrations specified in the standard, e.g., action level of airborne beryllium of 0.1 micrograms per cubic meter of air (μg/m3) calculated as an 8-hour time-weighted average (TWA); permissible exposure limit airborne concentration in excess of 0.2 μg/m3 calculated as an 8-hour TWA; short-term exposure limit (STEL) of beryllium in excess of 2.0 μg/m3 as determined over a sampling period of 15 minutes. |
| What records: | Maintain records of:
*Review 1910.1020, Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, and 1910.134, Respiratory Protection, for specific data |
| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees having occupational exposures to lead |
| When: | When employees are exposed to lead at concentrations specified in the standard. |
| What records: | Maintain records of:
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees exposed or potentially exposed to hexavalent chromium in all forms and compounds in excess of 5 µg/m3, except:
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| What records: | Review 1910.1020, Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, and 1910.134, Respiratory Protection, for specific data |
| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees exposed to airborne concentrations of benzene in excess of 1 ppm over an 8-hour time weighted average |
| When: | When employee exposure exceeds exposure limits |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers whose operations involve occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials |
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| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees who have occupational exposure to 1,3-Butadiene |
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| What records: | Review 1910.1020, Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, for specific details. Also, see 1910.134 for requirements related to respirator fit testing records. |
| Who’s covered: | Employers with employees potentially exposed to methylene chloride |
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| What records: | Review 1910.1020, Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, for specific details |
| Who’s covered: | Employers with workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica at either the action level or PEL. The action level is 25 μg/m3 (micrograms of silica per cubic meter of air), averaged over an 8-hour day. The PEL is 50 μg/m3, averaged over an 8-hour day. Exact recordkeeping responsibilities depend on the exposure, duration of exposure and other factors. Most apply to exposures above the PEL. |
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| What records: | Review 1910.1020, Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records, and 1910.134, Respiratory Protection, for specific data |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources not exempted by 1910.1096(p) |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Personal monitoring records — Records of the radiation exposure of all employees for whom personnel monitoring is required under 1910.1096(d). See 1910.1096(n)(1). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources not exempted by 1910.1096(p) |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Records in same units — Maintain records in the same units used in tables in 1910.1096(b) and appendix B to 10 CFR 20. See 1910.1096(n)(2). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources not exempted by 1910.1096(p) |
| When: | When permitting an individual in a restricted area to receive doses to the whole body greater than those permitted. |
| What records: | Exposure records for restricted area — Adequate past and current exposure records which show that the addition of a dose will not cause the individual to exceed the amount authorized. See 1910.1096(b)(2). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources where the employers are not regulated by Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) 10 CFR part 20 or ionizing radiation laws and regulations of a state named in 1910.1096(p)(3) |
| When: | When employees are working in or frequenting radiation areas |
| What records: | Postings — Post the following or keep such documents available for examination of employees upon request:
If posting, the documents must be posted conspicuously in such locations as to ensure that employees working in or frequenting radiation areas will observe these documents on the way to and from their place of employment. See 1910.1096(i). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources where the employees are not protected by NRC 10 CFR 20, a contract with the NRC, or ionizing radiation laws and regulations of a state named in 1910.1096(p)(3) |
| When: | Immediately upon any incident involving radiation which may have caused or threatens to cause:
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| What records: | Immediate notification — Notification of the incident to OSHA by telephone or telegraph. See 1910.1096(l)(1). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources where the employees are not protected by NRC 10 CFR 20, a contract with the NRC, or ionizing radiation laws and regulations of a state named in 1910.1096(p)(3) |
| When: | Within 24 hours following the occurrence of an incident involving radiation that may have caused or threatens to cause exposure of the whole body of any individual to 5 rems or more of radiation; exposure of the skin of the whole body of any individual to 30 rems or more of radiation; or exposure of the feet, ankles, hands, or forearms to 75 rems or more of radiation |
| What records: | 24-hour notification — Notification of the incident to OSHA by telephone or telegraph. See 1910.1096(l)(2). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources where the employees are not protected by NRC 10 CFR 20, a contract with the NRC, or ionizing radiation laws and regulations of a state named in 1910.1096(p)(3) |
| When: | Within 30 days of any required OSHA notification of a radiation exposure incident |
| What records: | Report to OSHA overexposure and excessive levels/concentrations — Make a report in writing to OSHA of each exposure of an individual to radiation or concentrations of radioactive material in excess of any applicable limit in this section. Each report shall describe the extent of exposure of persons to radiation or to radioactive material; levels of radiation and concentration of radioactive material involved, the cause of the exposure, levels of concentrations; and corrective steps taken or planned to assure against a recurrence. See 1910.1096(m)(1). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources where the employees are not protected by NRC 10 CFR 20, a contract with the NRC, or ionizing radiation laws and regulations of a state named in 1910.1096(p)(3) |
| When: | When the employer is required to report in writing to OSHA of an overexposure involving radiation or excessive concentration of radioactive material |
| What records: | Notify individual of overexposure and excessive levels/concentrations — Notify such individual of the nature and extent of exposure. Such notice shall be in writing and shall contain the following statement: “You should preserve this report for future reference.” See 1910.1096(m)(2). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers that have employees with exposure to ionizing radiation sources not exempted by 1910.1096(p) |
| When: | Within 30 days from the time a request is made from a former employee an employer |
| What records: | Records disclosure — Furnish to the employee a report of the employee's exposure to radiation as shown in records maintained by the employer pursuant to 1910.1096(n)(1). The report shall cover each calendar quarter of the individual's employment involving exposure to radiation or such lesser period as may be requested by the employee. The report shall also include the results of any calculations and analysis of radioactive material deposited in the body of the employee. The report shall be in writing and contain the following statement: “You should preserve this report for future reference.” See 1910.1096(o). |
| Who’s covered: | Employers who stock, use, manufacture, or import hazardous chemicals |
| When: | No time frame specified |
| What records: | Maintain a written hazard communication program that documents all hazard communication efforts in a given worksite, including:
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| Who’s covered: | Laboratory operators whose facilities involve the use of hazardous chemicals, or chemicals which cause health problems in exposed employees |
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['Safety and Health Programs and Training', 'Machine Guarding', 'Tool Safety', 'Wheel and Rim Servicing', 'HAZWOPER', 'Electrical Safety', 'Hazardous Materials Safety - OSHA', 'Fire Protection and Prevention', 'Fall Protection', 'Lockout/Tagout', 'Bloodborne Pathogens', 'Welding and Cutting', 'Materials Handling and Storage', 'Personal Protective Equipment', 'Toxic and Hazardous Substances - OSHA', 'Forklifts and Powered Trucks', 'Cranes, Lifts, and Scaffolding', 'Industrial Hygiene', 'Specialized Industries', 'Walking Working Surfaces']
['Ladders', 'Toxic and Hazardous Substances - OSHA', 'Telecommunication Utilities', 'Hydrogen', 'Lockout/Tagout', 'Aerial Lifts', 'Tool Safety', 'Housekeeping', 'Materials Handling and Storage', 'Mobile Cranes', 'Fire Extinguishers', 'Acrylonitrile', 'Falling Object Protection', 'Underwater Diving', 'Wheel and Rim Servicing', 'Electrical Safety', 'Walking Working Surfaces', 'Pulp and Paper Mills', 'Electric Power Utilities', 'Forklifts and Powered Trucks', 'Bloodborne Pathogens', 'Radiation', 'Overhead Cranes', 'Arsenic', 'Bakery Equipment', 'Ventilation', 'Bloodborne Pathogens Prevention and Control', 'Asbestos', 'Welding and Cutting', 'Derricks', 'Beryllium', 'Dipping and Coating', 'Powered Platforms', 'Process Safety Management', 'Crystalline Silica', 'Coke Oven Emissions', 'Personal Protective Equipment', 'Logging Operations', 'Fall Protection', 'Machine Guarding', 'Sawmills', 'Safety and Health Programs and Training', 'HAZWOPER', 'Compressed Gases', 'Fire Protection and Prevention', 'Grain Handling', 'Respiratory Protection', 'Flammable Liquids', 'Explosives and Blasting']
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