
The Public Employees Occupational Safety and Health (PEOSH) Act requires covered employers to “make, keep, preserve and make available the following records to the Commissioner of Labor and the Commissioner of Health:”
“b. Records regarding work-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses other than minor injuries which require only first aid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of work or of motion, or transfer to another job.”
The PEOSH Act along with recordkeeping regulations adopted from federal OSHA (29 CFR 1904), provide specific recording and reporting requirements which comprise the framework for the statewide public sector employer recording system.
Under this system, it is essential that data recorded by employers be uniform and accurate to assure the consistency and validity of the statistical data which is used by PEOSH and OSHA for many purposes, including inspection targeting, performance measurement. The data also aid employers, employees and compliance officers in analyzing the safety and health environment at the employer's establishment and preparing the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) Annual Survey.