October 9, 2009
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U.S. Labor Department's OSHA begins National Emphasis Program on recordkeeping to determine accuracy of worker injury and illness data
The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is initiating a national emphasis program (NEP) on recordkeeping to assess the accuracy of injury and illness data recorded by employers.
The recordkeeping NEP involves inspecting occupational injury and illness
records prepared by businesses and appropriately enforcing regulatory
requirements when employers are found to be under-recording injuries and
illnesses.
OSHA postulates the most likely places where under-recorded injuries and illnesses may exist would be low rate establishments operating in historically high rate industries. The NEP will pilot test OSHA’s ability to effectively target establishments to identify under-recording of occupational injuries and illnesses.
The inspections include a records review, employee interviews, and a limited
safety and health inspection of the workplace. The NEP will focus on selected
industries with high injury and illness rates.
At the request of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and the House Committee on Education and Labor, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a study on the accuracy of employer injury and illness records. This NEP will help OSHA work cooperatively with the GAO. It also complements the Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) efforts to investigate factors accounting for differences between the number of workplace injuries and illnesses estimated by BLS and those estimated by other data sources.
Follow this link http://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/Directive_pdf/CPL_02_09-08.pdf
to read more about the NEP.
In addition to this NEP, OSHA will address the issue through comprehensive training of its compliance staff to identify and correct violations of the recordkeeping regulation. OSHA will also develop other enforcement and quality assurance programs to address the recordkeeping issue in establishments and industries outside the scope of this NEP (e.g., the construction industry, Partnerships, VPP and SHARP establishments).
U.S. Department of Labor releases are accessible on the Internet at http://www.dol.gov.
5,071 workers died on the job in 2008. With each fatality, the lives of a worker’s family are shattered and forever changed…
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, OSHA's role is to promote safe and healthful working conditions for America's men and women by setting and enforcing standards, and providing training, outreach and education. For more information, visit http://www.osha.gov.
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