§675 — Title 29 Labor | U.S. Code

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Within 120 days after each regular session of Congress begins, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health and Human Services must each prepare a report and give it to the President to send to Congress. The report must describe the chapter’s subject, progress toward its goals, and the needs in the field of workplace safety and health, plus any other important information. The report must cover standards and criteria made in the past year; reviews of earlier standards and where new ones are needed; how well rules are being followed and a summary of inspections and enforcement; research results from government and non‑government work; major job-related diseases; available control and measurement technology for newly covered hazards; cooperative work between agencies and others; progress on training enough safety workers and future needs; a list of industrial toxic substances without labeling or standards; and any recommended new laws.

Title 29, §675

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Within one hundred and twenty days following the convening of each regular session of each Congress, the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall each prepare and submit to the President for transmittal to the Congress a report upon the subject matter of this chapter, the progress toward achievement of the purpose of this chapter, the needs and requirements in the field of occupational safety and health, and any other relevant information. Such reports shall include information regarding occupational safety and health standards, and criteria for such standards, developed during the preceding year; evaluation of standards and criteria previously developed under this chapter, defining areas of emphasis for new criteria and standards; an evaluation of the degree of observance of applicable occupational safety and health standards, and a summary of inspection and enforcement activity undertaken; analysis and evaluation of research activities for which results have been obtained under governmental and nongovernmental sponsorship; an analysis of major occupational diseases; evaluation of available control and measurement technology for hazards for which standards or criteria have been developed during the preceding year; description of cooperative efforts undertaken between Government agencies and other interested parties in the implementation of this chapter during the preceding year; a progress report on the development of an adequate supply of trained manpower in the field of occupational safety and health, including estimates of future needs and the efforts being made by Government and others to meet those needs; listing of all toxic substances in industrial usage for which labeling requirements, criteria, or standards have not yet been established; and such recommendations for additional legislation as are deemed necessary to protect the safety and health of the worker and improve the administration of this chapter.

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

May 15, 2000, of provisions in this section relating to the transmittal to Congress of reports prepared by the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Health and Human Services, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and pages 98 and 124 of House Document No. 103–7. Study of Occupationally Related Pulmonary and Respiratory Diseases; Study To Be Completed and Report Submitted by

September 1, 1979 Pub. L. 95–239, § 17, Mar. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 105, authorized Secretary of Labor, in cooperation with Director of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, to conduct a study of occupationally related pulmonary and respiratory diseases and to complete such study and report findings to President and Congress not later than 18 months after Mar. 1, 1978.

§675 Annual Reports by Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Health and Human Services; Contents

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Title 29, §675

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