Surveillance data is essential to identify and target prevention for all public health activity. Accurate and timely surveillance data are needed to identify causes of injury and illnesses, monitor prevention activity, plan interventions and evaluate the efficacy of these interventions. Unlike general public health surveillance, employers are a potential source of work-related injuries and illnesses surveillance data. Repeated studies have found that employers’ compliance with occupational injury and illness regulations involving reporting and recordkeeping are incomplete, missing 50 to 60% of the work-related injuries and even more of the work-related illnesses.2, 3 Reasons for incorrect or incomplete reporting by
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