BLS Safety and Health Data: A Vision for Improved Statistics

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Brief Summary:
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) presents data, research, and future plans related to the Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII) and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). BLS describes a method for combining fatal and nonfatal occupational safety statistics to facilitate usage of both types of data to jointly characterize the risk profile of worker groups. BLS also discusses state quantitative and qualitative research into the SOII undercount as well as research into the collection of occupational injury and illness data directly from employees.