Reporting and Compiling Data on – Illness and Injury in the Workplace

FRESNO - ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, has a new draft standard for occupational injury and illness recordkeeping that will be available in November for review and comment. Titled American National Standard for Occupational Safety and Health Surveillance, Z16.5, it is intended to replace two earlier voluntary standards that have been withdrawn, ANSI Z16.1-1967 and ANSI 716.4-1977.Carl Metzgar represents the National Safety Management Society on the Z16 Committee. He explained