Not many folks spend a lot of time reading 1910.1020 Access to employee exposure and medical records and it shows during most of our OSH audits. The standard is not a safety standard, so most safety pros don’t spend much time on the standard. But there is a lot of “document control and retention” needs embedded in the standard and most facilities that have the basic OSHA compliance program approach to safety and health will fail in their compliance with this standard.
Take for example, what does the facility do with MSDS/SDS for chemicals that are no longer used at the facility? A lot of facilities are not aware of the requirement to not only maintain the MSDS/SDS for those chemicals, but they are also required to maintain info…