WAC 296-37-575. Recordkeeping requirements

(1) Recording and reporting. The employer must comply with chapter 296-27 WAC for recording work-related injuries and illnesses and reporting to the department any work-related fatality, inpatient hospitalization, amputation, or the loss of an eye. (2) Availability of records. (a) Upon the request of the director of the department of labor and industries or his duly authorized designees, the employer shall make available for inspection and copying any record or document required by this standard. (b) Records and documents required by this standard shall be provided upon request to employees, designated representatives, and the assistant director in accordance with chapter 296-802 WAC. Safe practices manuals (WAC 296-37-530 ), depth-time profiles (WAC 296-37-540 ), recording of dives (WAC 296-37-545 ), decompression procedure assessment evaluations (WAC 296-37-545 ), and records of hospitalizations (chapter 296-27 WAC) shall be provided in the same manner as employee exposure records or analyses using exposure or medical records. Equipment inspections and testing records which pertain to employees (WAC 296-37-570 ) shall also be provided upon request to employees and their designated representatives. (c) Records and documents required by this standard shall be retained by the employer for the following period: (i) Dive team member medical records (physician's reports) (WAC 296-37-525 ) - Five years; (ii) Safe practices manual (WAC 296-37-530 ) - Current document only; (iii) Depth-time profile (WAC 296-37-540 ) - Until completion of the recording of dive, or until completion of decompression procedure assessment where there has been an incident of decompression sickness; (iv) Recording dive (WAC 296-37-545 ) one year, except five years where there has been an incident of decompression sickness; (v) Decompression procedure assessment evaluations (WAC 296-37-545 ) - Five years; (vi) Equipment inspections and testing records (WAC 296-37-570 ) - Current entry or tag, or until equipment is withdrawn from service; (vii) Records of hospitalizations (WAC 296-27-02107 ) - Five years. (d) After the expiration of the retention period of any record required to be kept for five years, the employer shall forward such records to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Department of Health and Human Services. The employer shall also comply with any additional requirements set forth in chapter 296-802 WAC.