OSHA findings in home care and hospice are rarely exotic. They are a training date that slipped past a year, a hepatitis B offer nobody recorded, a fit test that quietly lapsed. These are the twelve we watch, every morning, against your own staff records.
None of these are obscure. They are the dates that decide whether a finding is written up, and every one of them is a subtraction anybody could do — if anybody were doing it every morning.
Bloodborne pathogens training is due at the time of initial assignment to tasks where exposure may take place. There is no window to run down, which is why we allow no grace period on it.
29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(ii)(A)Eight hours, not one working day. It is the shortest clock anywhere in the rules we watch, and the one where a daily check is a backstop rather than the timer.
29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1)The Form 300A annual summary has to be certified by a company executive, posted by February 1, and left up until April 30. A posting dated before the year end cannot be the posting for that year.
29 CFR 1904.32(b)(6)Not a portal you have to remember to open. A dashboard that holds the current state, one email each morning to the person who owes the work, and a text only when something is already past due.
| State | Who | Requirement | What we found |
|---|---|---|---|
| Past due | Nguyen, T. | Bloodborne pathogens training, annual29 CFR 1910.1030(g)(2)(ii) | 2 employees past their annual date, oldest by 23 days. |
| Past due | Safety Officer | Sharps injury log entry29 CFR 1904.8 | Needlestick reported 6 days ago. No log entry yet. |
| Action due | Brooks, A. | Hepatitis B vaccination offered29 CFR 1910.1030(f)(2) | New hire. 10-day window closes in 3 days. |
The dashboardEverything open, who owns it, and the citation behind it.
The morning emailOne brief a day, to the person who owes the work.
The textReserved for the ones that cannot wait for email.
All twelve, in the words we use when we tell you one is open. Where the standard states a number we use it. Where it says only "periodic" or "immediately", the finding says so rather than inventing a deadline.
Training is due at the time of assignment, not within some number of days of it, so we allow no grace period at all. After a year we stop naming the employee, because by then it is a personnel file gap rather than a live clock.
Unusually precise for OSHA: annual training within one year of the previous training. It is one year from the last session, not one per calendar year — which is why a January session followed by a December session the next year is late.
The review must also document that safer medical devices were considered, and that input was solicited from frontline employees. We watch the date; we cannot see whether those two things happened.
The duty is to make it available, not to have the employee take it. Record the offer date, not the injection date — and note the clock does not start until after the employee has had their training.
The statement has to be the one in Appendix A of the standard, word for word. The employee may still request and receive the vaccination later at no cost.
The standard says immediately available, so we allow no days at all. We read the whole staff list including people who have since left, because an exposure incident does not stop mattering when someone resigns.
Also required whenever a different facepiece is used — size, style, model or make. We cannot see a change of respirator, so read this as the annual clock only. Loose-fitting powered air-purifying respirators do not need a fit test.
There is no annual respirator medical evaluation in the standard, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. One is required before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator, and further evaluations only when specific things happen.
February 1 is 32 days after the year end, which is how we count it. It must also be certified by a company executive and kept posted until April 30. A posting dated before the year end cannot be the posting for that year.
A retention checkpoint rather than a missed deadline. The part everybody forgets is that the stored 300 Logs must be kept up to date during storage with newly discovered recordable cases and reclassifications.
The regulation's clock is 8 hours and we work in whole days, so we cannot tell you at hour nine — we tell you the next morning. Treat this as a backstop, never as the timer.
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