The Basics
OSHA's Mandate
The OSH Act of 1970 requires the Secretary of Labor to produce regulations that require employers in certain industries to keep records of work-related occupational fatalities, injuries, and illnesses. The records are used for several purposes.
Employers may be required to keep records.
- OSHA collected work-related data through the OSHA Data Initiative (ODI) to help direct its programs and measure its own performance. Inspectors also use the data during inspections to help direct their efforts to correct the hazards that are hurting workers.
- The records provide the base data for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Annual Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses, the Nation's primary source of occupational injury and illness data.
- The records are also used by employers and employees to implement safety and health programs at individual workplaces. Analysis of the data is a widely recognized method for discovering workplace safety and health problems and for tracking progress in solving those problems.
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