Safety 2010 Proceedings

681 GAO Review of Efforts to Ensure Accuracy of Injury and Illness Data

Instructor: Sara Pelton, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC
Mary Crenshaw, Government Accountability Office, Washington, DC

Description: A Government Accountability Office report describes DOL’s efforts to ensure that injuries and illnesses are properly recorded by employers. It helps determine, how DOL verifies that employers are accurately recording workers’ injuries and illnesses; and what factors may affect the accuracy of employers’ injury and illness records.

Level: I