Occupational injury and illness recording and reporting requirements. Final rule.

Occupational injury and illness recording and reporting requirements--NAICS update and reporting revisions. Final rule.

OSHA is issuing a final rule to update the appendix to its Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting regulation. The appendix contains a list of industries that are partially exempt from requirements to keep records of work-related injuries and illnesses due to relatively low occupational injury and illness rates. The updated appendix is based on more recent injury and illness data and lists i...

Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration 29 Cfr Part 1904 Occupational Injury and Illness Recording and Reporting Requirements— Naics Update and Reporting Revisions; Final Rule

Under-recording of work-related injuries and illnesses: An OSHA priority.

INTRODUCTION A 2009 Government Accounting Office (GAO) report, along with numerous published studies, documented that many workplace injuries are not recorded on employers' recordkeeping logs required by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and consequently are under-reported to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), resulting in a substantial undercount of occupational injur...

Comparing Two Sports Injury Surveillance Systems: A Novel Systematic Approach

Purpose: The present study aimed to compare two sports injury surveillance systems per the sports injury recording system of the sports medicine federation. Methods: A sports injury surveillance system was implemented to collect injury data. Athletic trainers recorded athletes’ sports injuries in soccer, volleyball, handball, taekwondo, and wrestling for 6 months in their user account via a sm...

Report of a system for diagnosis, categorizing and recording occupational mental ill-health.

BACKGROUND UK statutory systems for occupational disease recording do not include mental illness resulting from occupational stress. The issue is included within physician reporting systems, but there is no agreed set of criteria for diagnosis of occupational causation and no agreed system of categorization in terms of type of causation by workplace factors. METHOD A multidisciplinary group o...