5 U.S.C. § 7902 — Safety programs
submitted 60 years ago by Pub. L. 89-554 to r/title-5-GOVERNMENT-ORGANIZATION-AND-EMPLOYEES · 240 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines employee and agency for its safety rules, assigns the Secretary of Labor a safety program, permits a presidential safety council, and requires agency safety promotion and records.
(a) “Employee” means an employee under section 8101; “agency” means an agency in any United States Government branch, excluding the Postal Service, including a wholly United States-owned instrumentality and the District of Columbia government.
(b) The Secretary of Labor must conduct the section 941(b)(1) of title 33 safety program covering each agency employee.
(c) The President may (1) create by Executive order an advisory safety council of agency and employee-labor-organization representatives and (2) take other proper measures to prevent agency-employee injuries and accidents.
(d) Each agency head must organize and support safety promotion to reduce accidents and injuries, encourage safe practices, and remove work hazards and health risks.
(e) Each agency must (1) record employee injuries and accidents whether or not they cause lost time or benefits and (2) make statistical or other reports on forms the Secretary prescribes.
For the purpose of this section—
“employee” means an employee as defined by section 8101 of this title; and
“agency” means an agency in any branch of the Government of the United States (not including the United States Postal Service), including an instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, and the government of the District of Columbia.
The Secretary of Labor shall carry out a safety program under section 941(b)(1) of title 33 covering the employment of each employee of an agency.
The President may—
establish by Executive order a safety council composed of representatives of the agencies and of labor organizations representing employees to serve as an advisory body to the Secretary in furtherance of the safety program carried out by the Secretary under subsection (b) of this section; and
undertake such other measures as he considers proper to prevent injuries and accidents to employees of the agencies.
The head of each agency shall develop and support organized safety promotion to reduce accidents and injuries among employees of his agency, encourage safe practices, and eliminate work hazards and health risks.
Each agency shall—
keep a record of injuries and accidents to its employees whether or not they result in loss of time or in the payment or furnishing of benefits; and
make such statistical or other reports on such forms as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 530; Pub. L. 91–596, § 19(c), Dec. 29, 1970, 84 Stat. 1610; Pub. L. 105–241, § 2(b)(2), Sept. 28, 1998, 112 Stat. 1572.)
- 1966Enacted · Pub. L. 89-554 · 80 Stat. 530
- 1970Amended · Pub. L. 91-596 · 84 Stat. 1610
- 1998Amended · Pub. L. 105-241 · 112 Stat. 1572
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 89-554 on 1966-09-06.
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