Terrence Carter

Recordkeeping looks like clerical work. It isn’t. Whether an incident lands on your 300 log decides your injury rates, and those rates decide your inspection risk, your eligibility to bid, and your workers’ comp premium. The trickiest call of all is the line between first aid and medical treatment, and it doesn’t work the way most EHS managers assume. Here’s the complete 2026 breakdown.

Ask around and you’ll hear a confident claim: OSHA banned post-accident drug testing in 2016. It’s one of the most persistent myths in workplace safety, and it’s wrong. OSHA banned retaliatory testing, not testing itself, and the difference is where the real rules live. Here’s what’s permissible, what’s prohibited, and how to document your program so it holds up when an inspector asks.

Posting the Form 300A is one of the simplest things OSHA asks of an employer, and one of the most commonly fumbled. The wrong person signs it. It goes up late or comes down early. It lands on a wall nobody passes. Here is exactly what to post, when, who has to sign it, and what the fines look like in 2026 if you get it wrong.

Most employers think an OSHA inspection is bad luck. For the biggest category of planned inspections, it isn’t luck at all. OSHA builds its target list from the injury data you hand the agency every March, and your DART rate is the selection criterion. Here is exactly how the targeting works in 2026, and what a high recordable rate quietly does to your risk profile.