U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsFor the 2011 and 2012 survey years, we are collecting days of job transfer and restriction case information for entities within the NAICS industries beginning with 238, 311, 444, 481, 493, and 623. Respondents were notified if required to provide this information in the prenotification letter and in the letter received with survey instructions. If you are unsure whether you are required to provide this information, please contact your state.
Yes. Send an e-mail to your State and receive an Adobe form that you can fill out and send back to us. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the form. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a free software program that allows you to view Portable Document Files (PDF). You may download it at no cost from Adobe's Web site. Respondents required to provide days of job transfer and restriction information cannot currently report via the fillable form.
Yes. Call the number listed on the front of your survey package next to 'For Help Call:'. They can take your data over the phone.
Yes. You can submit an electronic file of your survey data. Generally, large companies with multiple locations in the SOII would benefit the most from this type of submission. Contact us for specific instructions.
You can add establishment ID(s) to your existing account. On the Add New Establishment ID(s) to Account Page:
Check the establishment ID number(s) on the information sheets you received to verify whether the information sheet is the same. If the information sheet contains different establishment ID numbers, you should submit data for each establishment.
If you did not record the necessary information on your OSHA forms, please use whatever records you have available.
Yes. Establishment information is the name and address of the worksite for which you are completing. To update establishment information:
Yes. To modify your survey responses:
Yes. Your responses are saved automatically when you click on the "Save & Continue" button.
Yes. To review or print your survey responses:
This is a survey that is designed to provide an estimate of the number of work related injuries and illnesses and a measure of the frequency (rate) at which they occur. For more serious cases, those that involve one or more days away from work, it also provides a description of the injury or illness circumstances as well as the characteristics of the affected workers. You can learn much more about this survey by visiting http://www.bls.gov/iif/.
The SOII collects data on non-fatal injuries and illnesses for each calendar year from a sample of employers. Just prior to the start of the year, the BLS sends notification (and recordkeeping information) to the sampled employers. In the following January, the BLS sends these employers requests for the injury and illness information for the year just ended, along with instructions on how to report it to the BLS. These reports form the basis of the annual estimates published in the October and November after the data are collected.
The data are used to identify and correct hazards in the workplace. National and State policy makers use the survey as an indicator of the occupational safety and health conditions across industries and kinds of workers. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration uses the statistics to help determine where additional measures are needed to improve safety programs and to measure the effectiveness of the 1970 act in reducing work-related injuries and illnesses. Both labor and management use the estimates to design and evaluate safety programs. Other users include insurance carriers involved in workers' compensation, industrial hygienists, manufacturers of safety equipment, researchers, and others concerned with job safety and health.
Your survey materials and instructions will indicate whether your response is mandatory.
Participation by private sector employers is mandated by OSHA. OSHA's recordkeeping advisor explains some of the regulations that apply. For State and local government employers, your State laws determine whether this survey is mandatory.
Yes! Your information and identity are kept in strict confidence in accordance with Bureau of Labor Statistics Data Integrity Guidelines and with the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2002.
Not all establishments are included in this survey every year and the survey instructions include certain information necessary for you to successfully respond to the survey. If you received survey instructions but have misplaced them, contact the State agency that would have mailed the instructions to you. The contact information for each State can be found on our respondent contact/help page.
The sample that we select for the survey is relatively small comprising only about 200,000 establishments across the entire country. The sample size is kept as small as possible while still allowing us to produce reliable estimates of injuries and illnesses for both the nation and each participating State. The establishments selected for the survey are separated into groups according to their location, industry, and number of employees. An optimum sample size is determined and then a probability sample from each group is randomly selected.
You must include all employees on your payroll, whether they are labor, executive, hourly, salaried, part-time, seasonal, or migrant workers. You also must include employees who are not on your payroll, such as those provided by an employment agency if you supervise these employees on a day-to-day basis. See OSHA's recordkeeping advisor for more guidance on which employees must be included.
We ask that you submit your data within 30 days of receiving your survey instructions. If you feel that is not sufficient time, please call your State office.
According to OSHA recordkeeping rules, you should classify a case according to its most serious final outcome. In this instance, you would classify this case as a case with days away from work and you would record the number of days away from work AND the days of job transfer or restriction in the corresponding columns on your OSHA 300 log.
You should count calendar days.
You should count full-time employees, part-time employees, temporary workers, seasonal workers, salaried workers, and hourly workers. The coverage is the same as stated in question 21 above, including those employees provided by the employment agency if you supervise them on a day-to-day basis. See OSHA's recordkeeping advisor for more guidance on which employees must be included.
The hours worked is the measure that we use to determine the frequency rate of work-related injuries and illnesses. If the exact number of hours actually worked is not available then a reasonable estimate is an acceptable substitute. Our response to question 27 above provides a link that demonstrates one method of estimating the number of hours worked and includes a description of how one would handle the hours worked by salaried employees.
Visit the OSHA Recordkeeping page and OSHA's recordkeeping advisor for information about recording work-related injuries and illnesses.
Call the phone number listed on the front of the survey instructions. If you need help with the Internet Data Collection Facility online submission or e-mail submission of your survey data, contact us at osh.helpdesk@bls.gov.
Last Modified Date: December 20, 2012
