{"id":79,"date":"2021-07-26T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T19:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:10:19","slug":"occupational-health-safety-bureau","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupational Health &amp; Safety Bureau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Occupational Health and Safety Bureau works to ensure that all employees in New Mexico have a safe and healthful workplace.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bureau accomplishes this through:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Providing compliance assistance to employers through consultations and other programs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assisting employees who have concerns or complaints about workplace safety and taking further action if warranted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Implementing and enforcing the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Occupational Health and Safety Bureau (OHSB) is an agency within the New Mexico Environment Department. As an OSHA State Plan, the Bureau is responsible for enforcement of the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Act and providing assistance to the regulated community. The NM State Plan is funded by a federal grant of $1,291,700. The New Mexico On-Site Consultation program is funded by a federal cooperative agreement of $600,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics program consists of two grants, the Survey of Occupational Illnesses and Injuries (SOII) and Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI). The SOII and CFOI programs are Federal\/State cooperative programs administered annually by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and partner state agencies. The SOII provides official estimates of the number, rate, and characteristics of nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses. The CFOI program provides comprehensive and verifiable counts of all fatal work injuries across the United States. The SOII program is funded by a grant of $67,420 and the CFOI program is funded by a grant of $15,700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact us at 505-476-8700 to speak to Bureau staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupational Health and Safety Bureau works to ensure that all employees in New Mexico have a safe and healthful workplace. The Bureau accomplishes this through: The Occupational Health and Safety Bureau (OHSB) is an agency within the New Mexico Environment Department. As an OSHA State Plan, the Bureau is responsible for enforcement of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-79","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.env.nm.gov\/occupational_health_safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}