New Jersey § 34:6a-40

§ 34:6a-40.

In accordance with the regulations which shall be adopted by the commissioner , each employer shall make , keep, preserve and make available the following records to the commissioner and the Commissioner of Health: a. Records regarding the employer's activities relating to this act as the commissioner

deems necessary or appropriate for the enforcement of this act or for developing information regarding the causes and prevention of occupational accidents

and illness. b. Records regarding work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses other than minor injuries which require only first aid treatment and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of work or of motion, or transfer to another job . c. Records regarding employee exposure to potentially toxic materials or other harmful physical

agents which the regulations require to be monitored or measured. The regulations shall provide employees or their representatives with an opportunity

to observe the monitoring or measurement and access to the records of the monitoring

or measurement. Each employee or former employee shall be informed of and have access to all records which will indicate his own exposure to toxic materials or harmful physical

agents and the properties, characteristics and effects thereof. Each employer shall promptly notify any employee who has been or is being exposed

to toxic materials of harmful physical agents in concentrations or at levels which

exceed those prescribed by any safety and health standard promulgated under this act,

and shall inform any employee who is being exposed of the corrective action being

taken and the time limit for compliance pursuant to subsection a. of section 17 of

this act. 1 Each employer shall, in accordance with regulations which shall be adopted by the

commissioner, file with the commissioner periodic reports based on the records kept

pursuant to this section. The commissioner shall develop and maintain an effective program of collection,

compilation, analysis and reporting to the public of statistics on work-related deaths,

injuries and illnesses other than minor injuries which require only first aid treatment

and which do not involve medical treatment, loss of consciousness, restriction of

work or of motion, or transfer to another job, except that any information which identifies

an individual employee shall be confidential. The commissioner shall promote, encourage or directly engage in programs of studies,

information and communication concerning occupational safety and health statistics. 1

N.J.S.A. § 34:6A-41.