- About
- Take Action
- News
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Resources Home
- Recursos de Coronavirus para Trabajadorxs
- COVID Resources for Workers
- COVID-19 Worker Fatalities
- COVID-19 Campaigns and Toolkits
- COVID-19 Fact Sheets by Industry
- COVID-19 PPE and Safe Cleaning
- COVID-19 Workers Comp, Paid Sick Time and other Benefits
- COVID-19 Government Resources
- COVID-19 Relief Bills
- COVID-19 Multilingual Resources
- Resources
- National COSH Reports
- Local COSH Reports and Activities
- Fatality Database
- Tools for Trainers
- Know Your Rights
- Workers' Memorial Week Archives
- Materials in Other Languages
- Workplace Hazards
- Young Workers
- Food Workers
- OSH Studies, Reports
- Safe Storm Cleanup
- Technical OSH Materials
- Health and Safety Films
- Campaigns
- Worker Health and Safety Committees
- Comités de Seguridad y Salud de les Trabajadores
- Climate Justice / Heat Stress
- Defending Immigrant Workers
- Our Turn Sexual Harassment Action Network
- Policy Advocacy / Promoción de Políticas
- Teens Lead@Work
- WE RISE / NOS LEVANTAMOS
- Worker Led Solutions to the Opioid Crisis
- WorkedUp
- WorkedUp Español
- Conference
- Workers' Memorial Week
You are here
National COSH Comment on New OSHA Recordkeeping Rules
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Press Contacts:
Roger Kerson, 734.645.0535; roger@nationalcosh.org
Accurate, Timely Reporting is Necessary
to Prevent Workplace Injuries and Illnesses
SAN DIEGO, CA – The following statement is from National COSH Acting Executive Director Jessica Martinez.
“Accurate and timely reporting of on-the-job injuries and illnesses is one of the best tools we have to learn how to make workplaces safer.
“The new OSHA recordkeeping rule, announced today in the Federal Register for publication on May 12, is an important step towards transparency. By requiring electronic submissions every quarter and making the data public, this common-sense regulation will help us learn more about how workers are hurt and become sick on the job.
“The more we know, the more we can do to prevent injuries and illnesses from happening in the first place with effective safety programs centered on worker participation."
* * *
National COSH links the efforts of local worker health and safety coalitions in communities across the United States, advocating for elimination of preventable hazards in the workplace. For more information, please visit coshnetwork.org. Follow us at National Council for Occupational Safety and Health on Facebook, and @NationalCOSH on Twitter.
- 7876 reads