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- Click here for information from organizational OSH resources and links
- Using Medical Surveillance Data
- Sometimes information is compiled from medical surveillance which will help you identify and evaluate workplace hazards. Click here for a brief explanation of what is medical surveillance.
- Click here for a list of Cal/OSHA regulations that require medical surveillance
- Click here for a brief explanation of various guidelines that assure medical privacy for workers who are part of an occupational medical surveillance program
- Interviewing Witnesses
- Interviewing in Cal/OSHA Cases - this 15 page document is prepared for stewards or business agents who become involved with investigating a workplace injury or illness and need to interview witnesses.
- Researching the law
- Click here for the official site for California legislative information and click on California Law and then check the box for Labor Code and enter a specific section you wish to find. California laws related to occupational safety and health are in the Labor Code
- Researching regulations
- Click here for Title 8 California Code of Regulations. Cal/OSHA and other labor regulations in California are found in Title 8. Or click here to go directly to the California OSH regulations, then select the group of regulations that matches what you want
- For Federal laws and regulations, see:
See ALSO
- Research Tool linking OSHA Records to Other Federal Agency Information
- Click here for the new web-based search tool of Working America, the Community Affiliate of the AFL-CIO, that can be used to research the records of companies by geographical areas, company name, or industry.
- The Job Tracker Data Base links records from OSHA, the NLRA and data on job exports and layoffs due to trade agreements. It provides summary data, from which more detailed information on particular companies can be accessed.
- For OSHA it links the OSHA IMIS inspection data, injury data reported in the OSHA data initiative, and the list of companies with high injury rates who receive warning letters from OSHA as part of the site specific inspection program. Data is from 2000 forward and includes only closed OSHA cases.
- The site can be found at: http://www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker
- Researching an employer's OSH history
- Click here to look up an employer's OSH history with the U.S. Department of Labor (this is a very UNSATISFACTORY search device)
- Researching data by industry
- Click here for the US Department of Labor Federal OSHA Statistics & Data webpage. You can then click on Search Inspections by SIC to find a tool to locate OSHA inspections for a particular industry group. You will need to know the SIC (Standard Industrial Code), but there are some tools there to help you find that number. Click here for an on-line SIC tool. If you enter car washes in the keywords (as an example), you get nothing. But if you click here for another on-line tool from NAICS (North American Industry Classification System), and enter car washes in the keywords, you are led to a table with a live link for the NAICS Code. If you then click on that code, it gives you another table with the matching SIC code. NONE OF THESE SEARCHES ARE PERFECTLY EASY, but you can work your way through to get what you need. Once you have the SIC code, you will go back and click here. Then enter the SIC and/or the NAICS, choose your state, set the dates, and search. The results are also not always complete (the IMIS system which is used to compile OSH inpsection data has severe limitations), but it will provide some initial guidance.
- Researching Injury and Illness Rates - Incidence Rate Calculator and Comparison Tool
- Click here for a tool (US Dept of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics) that will allow you to calculate injury and illness incidence rates as well as compare these rates across industries and to similar sectors.
- Access to Cal/OSHA Records
- Click here for a sample letter to Cal/OSHA requesting copies of files (pdf)
- Access to Employer Records - 8 CCR 3204
- Statistical Information
- Haz-Map - Counting Occupational Diseases: the Tip of an Iceber
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics - Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program - provides data on illnesses and injuries on the job and data on worker fatalities. Click here for the BLS page.
- Nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses nationally
click here to link to the BLS page with this information
- Fatal occupational injuries and illnesses nationally
click here to link to the BLS page with this information
Workplace Deaths in 2007: Interactive Map
click here for the House Committee on Education and Labor. This map enables people to learn about many of the workplace fatalities that have occurred in their own communities this year. The map represents approximately ten percent of deaths that have occurred in U.S. workplaces during 2007. It is not a comprehensive report, but it demonstrates the need to strengthen worker safety protections. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5,703 people died at work during 2006. U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) launched the website on Labor Day, saying " To honor America?s workers this Labor Day, the country should commit to stopping the preventable toll of workplace deaths, injuries, and illnesses that affects workers across industries and occupations each year."
- DOL Claims on Worker Safety Challenged - LHSFNA - Vol. IX, No. 3) - OSHA's assertion last year that rates had dropped a whopping 19 percent since 2001 provoked a flurry of fact-checking. Now, it appears that the "decline" in injuries and illness is almost exclusively the result of changes in injury and illness reporting requirements.
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