Will provisions of OSHA's proposed injury and illness prevention program standard, a new voluntary consensus Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems standard and related new and proposed measures curtail employer practices that discourage workers from reporting job injuries and illnesses

In 2012 OSHA is expected to issue a proposed injury and illness prevention program standard, and an updated voluntary consensus Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems standard is expected to be finalized by the ANSI/AIHA Z10 Committee. Also in 2012, the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace issued a Technical Report, the first to evaluate California's Injury and Illness Prevention Program that was promulgated by Cal-OSHA in 1991. Essential to an effective comprehensive workplace health and safety program is a mechanism to ensure accurate injury and illness reporting and recording. Accurate injury/illness data is essential to measuring health and safety in a workplace and the interventions implemented to improve health and safety conditions. This presentation will explore particular provisions in current and proposed injury/illness prevention and health and safety management systems standards; analyze their ability to curtail employer policies, programs and practices that discourage workers from reporting work-related injuries and illnesses; and recommend specific changes if deficiencies are identified.