Employees leased

If I obtain employees from a temporary help service, employee leasing service, or personnel supply service, do I have to record an Injury or Illness occurring to one of those employees You must record these injuries and illnesses if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. 

Must the personnel supply service, temporary help service, employee leasing service, or contractor also record the injuries or illnesses occurring to temporary, leased or contract employees that I supervise on a day-to-day basis No, you and the temporary help service, employee leasing service, personnel supply service, or contractor should coordinate your efforts to make sure that each injury and illness is recorded only once either on your OSHA 300 Log (if you provide day-to-day supervision) or on the other employer s OSHA 300 Log (if that company provides day-to-day supervision). 

This sale and back-lease model is applied by many other pharmaceutical companies. It enables the company to dispose of assets without being forced to lay off employees. The net effect for the industry as a whole is that statistically, the share of outsourcing is increasing. However, the problem of underutilized capacity persists. For a hne-chemical company, the acquisition of an API plant from a pharma company is problematic. Once the supply contract, offered by the pharma company as an incentive for the acquisition, expires, the problem arises as to what the capacity should be used for. This is all the more the case as the plants usually are designed to manufacture just one product and therefore are not truly multipurpose. Last but not least, the plants have been run as cost centers and the implementation of a lean production... 

As the number of completed projects grows together with the circle of potential consulting customers (large, medium and small enterprises), it is likely that we will need to take on more employees in 2009. The extended ChemKit team will offer enough personnel resources to take on entry into the European consulting market as of 2010. The initiation and actual implementation of Europe-wide Chemical Leasing co-operations is an important and substantial step for ChemKit s development into an internationally accepted consultancy. 

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For OCS workplace safety, OCSLA proclaims that any company holding an offshore lease or permit is required to protect the health and safety of their workers and contractor employees by complying with occupational safety and health standards, the general duty to maintain workplaces free fi om recognized hazards, relevant health and safety regulations of other agencies, and additional safeguards that may be required as a condition for approval of the company s work plan (s.1548). 

If you are a stevedoring company you will employ dockworkers. You may also own, lease or operate a berth, terminal or other dock facilities. Dockworkers may be direct labour employees, contract labour supplied by an employment agency or business, or working on a self-employed or casual labour basis. 

Employer means any person engaged in a business affecting interstate commerce who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle in connection with that business, or assigns employees to operate it. 

There are many safety and operations managers in the motor carrier industry who still believe owner-operators, leased, temporary, and part-time drivers are not really employees of the company. 

Employee If you use owner operators, independent fleet owner drivers, lease drivers, etc., always keep in mind and recognize the fact that these individuals contracted to you are ultimately considered your agents and employees. As such, the hiring of any non-company driver must utilize the same standards and careful selection and screening process you use for your company drivers. 

How contractors and leased employees are selected and trained in safety-related issues, and how their expertise in the field of interest is ensured. This function also concerns practices to facilitate organisational learning from contractors as well as contractors own learning. ... 

Moreover, the many different actors are intercormected differently in different scenarios and the widest variety of client-contractor relationships exist, as the following two scenarios illustrate. In one scenario, the owner of a private forest sells the biomass from it and contracts different service providers to harvest and transport it. A consumer transports it and has a service provider chip it to the requisite quality before burning it. In another scenario, the forest owner has employees harvest and chip the biomass with a leased chipper and then has it transported to the consiuner by a transport provider. Both scenarios rely on different actors and therefore, also generate different direct and, above all, indirect costs. 

NOTE A temporary agency and the employer (the host) which creates and controls hazards must share responsibility for assuring that leased employees are protected from the... 

On your 300 Log, enter the recordable injuries and illnesses of all employees on your payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly, salary, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers. Also enter the recordable injuries and illnesses that occur to employees who are not on your payroll, such as temporary and leased workers, if you supervise them on a day-to-day basis. 

Eocample Employees of an establishment (XYZ Company), including temporary and leased workers, worked 645,089 hours at XYZ company. There were 22 injury and illness cases involving days away and/or restricted work activity and/or job transfer from the OSHA 300 Log (total of column H plus column I). The DART rate would be (22/645,089) x (200,000) = 6.8. 

Q. 1. Under 1904.31, employers who supervise temporary or leased employees at their facility are required to maintain the OSHA 300 Logs for those employees. With respect to those injuries, can the employer keep a separate 300 Log for the company employees and one log for the temporary or leased employees ... 

Q. 2. Under 1904.31, while the standard clearly indicates the 300 Logs must be maintained for supervised temporary or leased employees, it does not indicate who maintains the 301 documents or the first report of iiquries, as well as the medical records on those employees. Also, if a temporary or leased employee has days away from work, it is normally the temporary or leased employee provider s contractual responsibility to handle the medical treatment of the employee. The temporary or leased employee provider is the only person/entity to have the information on days away from work. Who is responsible for maintaining the 301 logs or the first report of injury forms as well as the medical records for these employees, assuming that the employee provider can produce the required documents to the employer for production in the time periods set forth in the standard ... 

Q. 3. Using the facts in Question 2, it is also important to note that an injured temporary or leased employee, who requires days from work, may be replaced by another leased or temporary employee at the worksite. From time of the injury, the employer has no information about the return to work status of the injured employee. In fact, the injured employee may be assigned to another employer once he or she is able to return to work. How can the original employer keep accurate 300 Logs when the employee provider has sole access to information on days away from work and return to work status ... 

Therefore, the controlling employer must make reasonable efforts to acquire the necessary information in order to satisfy its Part 1904 recordkeeping requirements. However, if the controlling employer is not able to obtain information from the employer of the leased or temporary employee, the controlhng employer shordd record the injury based on whatever information is available to the controlling employer. The preamble contains a brief reference about OSHA s expectation that the employers share information to produce accurate records, stating that the two employers have shared responsibilities and may share information when there is a need to do so. ... 

There are many advantages to assigning a particular vehicle to an employee. When you lease a vehicle to an individual, that person is responsible for that vehicle, which puts pressure on him or her to keep the vehicle clean and in good condition. Knowing that you have to be in the same vehicle every day motivates you to keep it well maintained and reduces abuse of the vehicle. It is convenient from a record keeping point of view to keep track of the vehicles and accidents or other incidents that occur. For this reason, assigning vehicles to employees will decrease your operating costs. 

Control means to reduce exposure to hazards in accordance with the General Duty Clause or OSHA standards, including providing appropriate supplemental and/or interim protection, as necessary, to exposed employees. Prevention and elimination are the best forms of control. Contract employer is an employer who performs work for a host employer at the host employer s workplace. A contract employer does not include an employer who provides incidental services that do not influence the workplace safety and health program, whose employees are only incidentally exposed to hazards at the host employer s workplace (e.g., food and drink services, delivery services, or other supply services). Employee means all persons who are considered employees under the OSH Act, including temporary, seasonal, and leased employees. Employer means all persons who are considered employers under the OSH Act. 

Industrial Scientific announced that business operations went live in February in its newly leased office space at 125 Enterprise Drive in Kttsburgh. The company s corporate headquarters will remain at 1001 Oakdale Road in Oakdale, Pa. Due to tremendous growth over the last decade, space shortages became a challenge as the company and its number of employees continued to expand. The 35,000-square-foot space now serves as Industrial Scientific s primary design and commercial facility and offers additional space needed for future growth. 

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