§673 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of Labor, working with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, must create and keep a program to collect, organize, and study job safety and health statistics. The program can cover most kinds of jobs but must not cover jobs excluded under section 653. It must record accurate counts of work injuries and illnesses. That includes all disabling, serious, or significant injuries and illnesses, even if the worker did not miss time from work. Minor injuries that only need first aid and do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, limits on work or motion, or a job transfer are excluded. To do this, the Secretary may run or support studies and information programs, give grants to States or their local governments to help them build and run safety-statistics programs, and fund research or investigations by grants or contracts. Federal grants may pay up to 50 percent of a State’s cost. With a State’s consent, the Secretary may use State agencies, facilities, and workers, with or without payment. Employers must file reports the Secretary requires, based on records kept under section 657(c). Existing agreements between the Department of Labor and States that were in effect when the chapter began stay in place until replaced by these grants or contracts.

Title 29, §673

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(a)In order to further the purposes of this chapter, the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services, shall develop and maintain an effective program of collection, compilation, and analysis of occupational safety and health statistics. Such program may cover all employments whether or not subject to any other provisions of this chapter but shall not cover employments excluded by section 653 of this title. The Secretary shall compile accurate statistics on work injuries and illnesses which shall include all disabling, serious, or significant injuries and illnesses, whether or not involving loss of time from work, other than minor injuries requiring only first aid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of work or motion, or transfer to another job.

(b)To carry out his duties under subsection (a) of this section, the Secretary may—

(1)promote, encourage, or directly engage in programs of studies, information and communication concerning occupational safety and health statistics;

(2)make grants to States or political subdivisions thereof in order to assist them in developing and administering programs dealing with occupational safety and health statistics; and

(3)arrange, through grants or contracts, for the conduct of such research and investigations as give promise of furthering the objectives of this section.

(c)The Federal share for each grant under subsection (b) of this section may be up to 50 per centum of the State’s total cost.

(d)The Secretary may, with the consent of any State or political subdivision thereof, accept and use the services, facilities, and employees of the agencies of such State or political subdivision, with or without reimbursement, in order to assist him in carrying out his functions under this section.

(e)On the basis of the records made and kept pursuant to section 657(c) of this title, employers shall file such reports with the Secretary as he shall prescribe by regulation, as necessary to carry out his functions under this chapter.

(f)Agreements between the Department of Labor and States pertaining to the collection of occupational safety and health statistics already in effect on the effective date of this chapter shall remain in effect until superseded by grants or contracts made under this chapter.

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The

Effective Date

of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (f), means the

Effective Date

of Pub. L. 91–596, Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1590, which is 120 days after Dec. 29, 1970, see section 34 of Pub. L. 91–596, set out as an

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note under section 651 of this title.

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Change of Name

“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” in subsec. (a) pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88 which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.

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