‘‘(1) the education and training of employers 
and employees in the recognition, avoidance, and 
prevention of violations of this Act; 
‘‘(2) the education and training of professionals 
involved in the placement, education, or delivery of 
other services to children on identifying and re-
sponding to oppressive child labor and incorporating 
into their activities knowledge about risk factors for 
exposing children to oppressive child labor; and 
‘‘(3) identification of potential violations of this 
Act and support for victims of such violations. 
‘‘(b) CHILD LABOR REPORT.—The Secretary shall 
publish an annual report on oppressive child labor and the 
employment of children. Such report, which may at the 
Secretary’s discretion be consolidated with any other re-
port about the activities of the Secretary related to chil-
dren and employment, shall include— 
‘‘(1) a report of the Secretary’s activities during 
the preceding year implementing the provisions of 
this Act related to child labor, including the number 
of directed investigations; 
‘‘(2) trends or other relevant analysis of youth 
employment, oppressive child labor, and the Sec-
retary’s enforcement activities; and 
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‘‘(3) an evaluation and appraisal of the protec-
tions against oppressive child labor established by 
this Act, together with the Secretary’s recommenda-
tions to the Congress. 
‘‘(c) ENFORCEMENT DISCLOSURE.—The Secretary 
shall publish, not later than March 1 of each year, an an-
nual statement of the capacity available to the Secretary 
to enforce this Act, which shall include— 
‘‘(1) the size of the inspectorate available in the 
preceding fiscal year to investigate and conduct en-
forcement activities pursuant to this Act; 
‘‘(2) the number of establishments and employ-
ees subject to the jurisdiction of this Act; 
‘‘(3) the ratio of inspectors to establishments 
and the ratio of inspectors to employees; 
‘‘(4) historical trends in such ratios, including 
a comparison of the most recent fiscal year to the 
years of the lowest such ratios; and 
‘‘(5) illustrative metrics of enforcement capac-
ity, including the number of years necessary for the 
inspectorate (based on the size of the inspectorate 
described in paragraph (1)) to inspect every work-
place in the Secretary’s jurisdiction under this Act 
at least once.’’. 
(b) OSHA.— 
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(1) ANNUAL REPORTS.—Section 20(d) of the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 
669(d)) is amended— 
(A) by striking the first word and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘PUBLIC INFORMATION INITIATIVES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Information’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) YOUNG
WORKERS.—The Secretary shall 
produce an annual report of occupational illness and 
injury specific to employees under the age of 18. 
Such report, which may at the Secretary’s discretion 
be consolidated with any other report about the ac-
tivities of the Secretary related to children and em-
ployment, shall include— 
‘‘(A) complaints and enforcement activities 
during the preceding year involving employees 
under the age of 18; 
‘‘(B) statistics about occupational illness, 
injury, and fatality suffered by such employees, 
including the distribution by age group of such 
illness, injury, and fatality across demographic 
factors such as country of origin, race, and eth-
nicity; 
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‘‘(C) reasonable estimates, informed by re-
search and in consultation with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, of the incidence 
and prevalence of occupational injury, illness, 
and fatality for such employees, accounting for 
such factors as underreporting and illness la-
tency, and including occupational illness likely 
to manifest after childhood because of exposure 
to a toxic substance or harmful physical agent 
during childhood employment; 
‘‘(D) trends or other relevant analysis of 
the matters described in the preceding subpara-
graphs; and 
‘‘(E) an evaluation and appraisal of the 
protections against occupational illness, injury, 
and fatality provided to such employees estab-
lished by this Act, together with the Secretary’s 
recommendations to the Congress. 
‘‘(3) ENFORCEMENT
DISCLOSURE.—The Sec-
retary shall publish, not later than March 1 of each 
year, an annual statement of the capacity available 
to the Secretary to enforce this Act, including the 
following: 
‘‘(A) the size of the inspectorate available 
in the preceding fiscal year to investigate and 
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conduct enforcement activities pursuant to this 
Act; 
‘‘(B) the number of establishments and 
employees subject to the jurisdiction of this Act; 
‘‘(C) the ratio of inspectors to establish-
ments and the ratio of inspectors to employees; 
‘‘(D) historical trends in such ratios, in-
cluding a comparison of the most recent fiscal 
year to the years of the lowest such ratios; 
‘‘(E) to the extent feasible, such ratios for 
the State plans; and 
‘‘(F) illustrative metrics of enforcement ca-
pacity, including the number of years necessary 
for the inspectorate (based on the size of the 
inspectorate described in paragraph (1)) to in-
spect every workplace in the Secretary’s juris-
diction under this Act at least once.’’. 
(2) TRAINING AND EMPLOYEE EDUCATION.— 
Section 21 of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Act of 1970 (29 U.S.C. 670) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) EFFECTIVE TRAINING PEDAGOGY.—The Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services shall, directly or by 
grant or contract, periodically undertake research, dem-
onstrations, experiments, and surveys relevant to the ef-
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fective design and delivery of safety and health training, 
education, and information targeted to employees under 
the age of 18 and employers of such employees.’’. 
Æ 
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