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OSHA Takes Steps To Bolster Tracking Of Illness And Injury Reporting

June 15, 2016 at 5:32 PM
OSHA is seeking to bolster its tracking of employee injury and illness reporting to prevent workplace accidents, with steps including the sponsorship of a new National Academy of Sciences (NAS) study on improving surveillance of worker injuries, and possibly looking at ways to increase the role of workers' compensation insurers in accident prevention. OSHA Chief David Michaels told a June 15 meeting of the agency's National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), that the agency has taken significant...

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