Y 4.674/2:00 1/5 OSHA INJURY AND ILLNESS INFORMATION SYSTEM HEARING BEFORE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION JUNE 20, 1984 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Operations U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 38-659 O WASHINGTON : 1984 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS JACK BROOKS, Texas, Chairman DON FUQUA, Florida FRANK HORTON, New York JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan JOHN N. ERLENBORN, Illinois CARDISS COLLINS, Illinois THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio GLENN ENGLISH, Oklahoma ROBERT S. WALKER, Pennsylvania ELLIOTT H. LEVITAS, Georgia LYLE WILLIAMS, Ohio HENRY A. WAXMAN, California WILLIAM F. CLINGER, JR., Pennsylvania TED WEISS, New York RAYMOND J. MCGRATH, New York MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire STEPHEN L. NEAL, North Carolina DAN BURTON, Indiana DOUG BARNARD, JR., Georgia JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR., Maine BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts TOM LEWIS, Florida TOM LANTOS, California ALFRED A. (AL) McCANDLESS, California RONALD D. COLEMAN, Texas LARRY E. CRAIG, Idaho DAN SCHAEFER, Colorado WILLIAM M. JONES, General Counsel JOHN E. MOORE, Staff Administrator MANPOWER AND HOUSING SUBCOMMITTEE BARNEY, FRANK, Massachusetts, Chairman MEL LEVINE, California JOHN R. McKERNAN, JR., Maine DAN BURTON, Indiana Ex OFFICIO JACK BROOKS, Texas FRANK HORTON, New York JUNE SAXTON, Clerk (II) CONTENTS Page Hearing held on June 20, 1984. Frank, Hon. Barney, a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and chairman, Manpower and Housing Subcommittee: Frumin, Eric, Chairman, Labor Research Advisory Committee on Occupa- 179 Kronebusch, Karl, Office of Technology Assessment in the health pro- gram, accompanied by Dr. Michael Gough, project director....... Millar, Dr. J. Donald, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, accompanied by Dr. Philip Landrigan, Director of the 3 Norwood, Janet L., Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. De- Seminario, Margaret, associate director, department of occupational safety and health and social security, American Federation of Labor/ 162 Tyson, Patrick, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, accompanied by Frank Frodyma, Director, Office of Program Evaluation, and Jackie De Mesme, Legislative Ana- Letters, statement, etc., submitted for the record by- Frank, Hon. Barney, a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and chairman, Manpower and Housing Subcommittee: Paper by Harvey J. Hilaski and Chao Ling Wang entitled “How Valid Are Estimates of Occupational Illness?”. Study by Mary Jane Bolle, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, entitled "Effectiveness of the Occupational Safety and Health Act: Data and Measurement Problems”. Frumin, Eric, Chairman, Labor Research Advisory Committee on Occupa- tional Safety and Health Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics: Information concerning occupational injury and illness reporting Prepared statement. 185-199 30-45 Millar, Dr. J. Donald, Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety State cooperative agreement program for occupational safety and Norwood, Janet L., Commissioner, Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. De- partment of Labor: Prepared statement. Seminario, Margaret, associate director, department of occupational safety and health and social security, American Federation of Labor/ Congress of Industrial Organization: Prepared statement.. Tyson, Patrick, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Occupational Safety and Information concerning research .... OSHA INJURY AND ILLNESS INFORMATION SYSTEM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1984 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m., in room 2247, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Barney Frank (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Barney Frank, Major R. Owens, and John R. McKernan, Jr. Also present: Stuart E. Weisberg, staff director; Thomas S. Crane, legislative assistant, June D. Saxton, clerk; and Nan Elwood, minority professional staff, Committee on Government Operations. OPENING STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN FRANK Mr. FRANK. Good morning. The hearing of the Manpower and Housing Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations will come to order. I should point out that the House is going into session a little early this morning. We may be interrupted once for a vote-it shouldn't be more often than that because there is going to be some lengthy debate over the first amendment and I think we should be able to finish this with only one interruption. The subject of today's hearing really grew out of some earlier hearings we had with respect to our jurisdiction over OSHA and the primary focus today—and I know other things were talked about as well and will come up-but the primary focus that the subcommittee has had and that Mr. McKernan and I have discussed among ourselves, as well as in the hearing, is the adequacy of our reporting of occupational illness. Obviously, OSHA has responsibility for illness and injury, and it's become clear to us, as it undoubtedly already was to people in the field, that for obvious reasons, injury is an easier concept to deal with. The intellectual problems and methodological problems involved in trying to keep track of occupationally caused or affected illnesses is obviously very difficult. It does seem to me that we are not doing as much as we ought to be doing in that area. I want to say at the outset, this is not one of the hearings when it is my view that it is the particular fault of this or that administration or this or that agency. I think we have a problem here (1) |
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