Legally Sound Documentation
Safety
Coaching/Counseling
Alphabet Soup
Risk Mitigation
100
This is the first person you should consult with before taking any disciplinary action with an employee.
Who is the Human Resources Director or Judy Magee?
100
Conducting this immediately following an injury, at the scene of the injury will help us understand how to prevent similar injuries from occurring.
What is an accident investigation?
100
These are the names the forms we use to document employee performance issues.
What is Educational Opportunity and Corrective Action Notice forms?
100
DOL is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour.
What is the Department of Labor?
100
This practice for holding all staff in the community accountable, will reduce the risk of wrongful termination lawsuits, EEOC Claims, etc.
What is Interdepartmental Consistency or Synchronization?
200
Every time you conduct a documented coaching/counseling session with an employee, you'll also need this person with you.
Who is your witness?
200
This document should be used when interviewing employees to ensure that they are capable of performing all aspects of the position.
What is a job description?
200
This information is found in HR and should be reviewed with the HRD to determine the appropriate action to take whenever there is an employee issue.
What is the Personnel File?
200
EEOC is an independent federal agency that enforces laws against workplace discrimination.
What is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
200
A well written and enforced Non-Solicitation Policy will reduce the risk of this activity occuring within your community?
What is Union Activity?
300
This term refers to the "evidence" that is generally found in a personnel file proving that the employee was aware of the correct policy, procedure or action.
What is Proof of Knowledge?
300
This test is conducted whenever an employee seeks medical attention for an injury.
What is a drug test?
300
These two or three sentence are written down and prepared in advance to begin the conversation with an employee you are counseling.
What is an Opening Statement?
300
FMLA is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.
What is Family Medical Leave Act?
300
These documents which are generally completed on an annual basis are of particular interest to a plaintiff attorney when a wrongful termination lawsuit is filed and are found in the employee file.
What are annual review forms?
400
Every department director and supervisor should have this manual at their finger tips and should be very familiar with it's contents.
What is the employee handbook?
400
This policy, is called a "citizenship" policy and it must be applied equitably in every department, however, each department can develop their own standards which work in conjunction with this policy.
What is the attendance policy?
400
This term is used for expressing "your" experiential view point.
What are "I" statements?
400
OSHA is a federal agency of the United States that regulates workplace safety and health.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
400
Placing an employee out on this before making a decision to terminate employment is a best practice because it minimizes risk.
What is Administrative Leave?
500
These facts support that the employee violated a policy, procedure or expected behavior.
What is Proof of Occurrence?
500
This type of injury does not need to be placed on your OSHA log.
What is a non-recordable injury?
500
These final remarks are written down in advance of meeting with your employee and designed with the purpose of obtaining an agreement from the employee to perform within the desired expectations.
What is a Closing Statement?
500
HIPAA - the Office for Civil Rights enforces this Privacy Rule, which protects the privacy of individually identifiable health information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
500
Employers are required to conduct this whenever an employee makes allegations of a serious nature such as Harassment, Hostile Work Environment, Threats or Violence.
What is a formal investigation?