Preparing For OSHA 300 Log, MSCI Safety Survey Submissions

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) 300 Log is a mandatory record for most industrial metals companies. It is used to track and classify all work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses, including details like days away from work, restricted activity, or medical treatment beyond first aid.

Like MSCI’s own Safety Survey, the OSHA 300 Log as a vital tool for identifying workplace hazards and improving safety.

MSCI Safety Survey Launches After 300 Logs Are Due

Each year, the 300 Log is due to OSHA in the first quarter, usually in early March. Once industrial metals companies have submitted their 300 Logs to OSHA, MSCI opens the portal for its annual Safety Survey. (Member companies can expect to see communications from MSCI about the Safety Survey in mid-spring 2026.)

Open to both service centers and mills, MSCI’s Safety Survey is designed to provide easy-to-understand metals industry safety benchmarks for MSCI members. It helps member companies track trends in their organization so they can design strategies to address safety concerns. It also acts as an essential benchmarking against peer organizations.

MSCI’s Safety Survey is the only source for metals industry safety data beyond basic OSHA and Canadian government data. This annual survey is one of the key pillars to our industry’s Zero Harm Safety Always (ZHSA) journey. It helps guide MSCI members toward improvements that will save lives, reduce injuries, and improve bottom lines.

Participating in the 2025 Safety Survey will be as seamless as it has been in the past since the information MSCI asks for is based on information for the OSHA Form 300A, or similar data member companies already are collection for the government.

MSCI Tools To Help Your Company Prepare OSHA 300 Logs

In 2024, 70 MSCI member companies submitted detailed survey responses for MSCI’s Safety Survey. These firms represented more than 2,200 locations, 160,000 employees, and 330 million labor hours. With participation, each company gained access to detailed benchmarking results, including:

• Excel data tables with comprehensive cross-industry data;
• Customized PDF reports with company-specific information for easy comparison; and
• A searchable, interactive portal for advanced filtering and analysis.

To help members prepare for their OSHA 300 Log submissions and MSCI’s Safety Survey submissions, in January of each year MSCI hosts a special professional development course, “The OSHA Recordkeeping Workshop,” which offers direct aid for safety leaders that need to fulfill their company’s recordkeeping requirements. The workshop also offered information to:

• Accurately maintain OSHA 300 Logs;
• Understand when an injury triggers a mandatory reporting requirement; and
• Properly complete and post your annual OSHA 300A summary logs.

The workshop has a nominal cost, but in late 2025, MSCI also hosted a complementary webinar. You can find a replay of that discussion in our webinar library. It touched on the industrial metals industry’s most frequently cited OSHA standard and addressed forklifts, lock out/tag out, crane operations, electrical issues, machine guarding, and confined spaces.

Additionally, to help answer all member companies’ questions, MSCI operates a safety helpline.

If you have questions about an OSHA 300 Log, the MSCI Safety Survey, or MSCI’s Zero Harm, Safety Always journey, get in touch at [email protected].

Briana Dee is MSCI’s vice president of events and networking.