OSHA makes employer injury, illness data available to public
Work-related injury and illness data submitted annually to OSHA by thousands of employers now will be publicly available, the agency announced this week.
OSHA uses the information to calculate injury and illness incidence rates and focus its Site-Specific Targeting Program. The data has been submitted to the agency by about 80,000 employers every year since 1996, and includes days away, restricted, transfer (DART) rates; days away from work (DAFWII) rates; and total case rates through fiscal year 2007.
The move is part of the Obama administration's Open Government Initiative, and was accompanied by the release of five other Department of Labor "high-value" datasets:
- DOL Research and Evaluation Inventory
- Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) Final Evaluation Dataset
- Public Workforce System Dataset (PWSD)
- Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA) Registered Farm Labor Contractor Listing
- Workforce Investment Act (WIA) Net Impact Evaluation Dataset
In addition, OSHA posted a dataset of weekly fatalities and catastrophes as reported by its area offices, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics released dozens of employment datasets, according to a DOL press release.
Post a comment to this article
Safety+Health welcomes comments that promote respectful dialogue. Please stay on topic. Comments that contain personal attacks, profanity or abusive language – or those aggressively promoting products or services – will be removed. We reserve the right to determine which comments violate our comment policy. (Anonymous comments are welcome; merely skip the “name” field in the comment box. An email address is required but will not be included with your comment.)