Section 7. Powers and duties of the president of the state civil service commission

The president of the commission  shall  have  the  following  powers and duties:
    1.  He  shall  be  the head of the department of civil service and the
  appointing officer thereof, and shall be responsible for  the  discharge
  of the duties and functions of the department and for the enforcement of
  the rules and regulations.
    2.  He  may select suitable persons in the service of the state or any
  of its civil divisions, after consulting the head of the  department  or
  office  in  which  such  persons  serve,  to  act as examiners under his
  direction. Persons so selected shall be entitled to  reimbursement  from
  the  department  for  their  actual  and  necessary expenses incurred in
  connection with such service.
    3. He shall adopt a departmental seal and require that it be used  for
  the  authentication  of  orders  and  other documents and for such other
  purposes as he may prescribe.
    4. Subject to the provisions of this chapter and the rules established
  thereunder,  he  shall  make  regulations  for  and  have   control   of
  examinations  for  the  service  of  the  state, and the civil divisions
  thereof,  except  civil  divisions  for  which  a  municipal  commission
  performs  such  function,  and  shall supervise and preserve the records
  thereof.
    5. He shall provide pre-retirement counseling services to employees of
  the state and of the civil divisions thereof  who  are  members  of  the
  state retirement system, and in cooperation with such retirement system,
  municipal  civil  service commissions, the adult education bureau of the
  education department and local school boards, establish such courses  on
  personal  counseling as may be necessary to prepare public employees for
  retirement.
    6. The president of the commission  shall  prepare  an  annual  report
  describing  occupational  injuries, illnesses, and workers' compensation
  experience for all state agencies as defined  by  subdivision  three  of
  section  two-a  of the state finance law. Such report shall be published
  no later than  September  thirtieth  of  each  year,  beginning  in  two
  thousand  eight,  and  shall report information on the basis of the last
  completed state fiscal year.  In  subsequent  years,  the  report  shall
  include  comparative data for up to five prior fiscal years if such data
  is available. The  report  shall  be  delivered  to  the  governor,  the
  legislature  and  to any labor organization that represents state agency
  employees and shall be available to the  public.  The  contents  of  the
  report  shall  include  the following information for each state agency,
  broken down by institutions and facilities as was  done  in  the  report
  previously  published by the department entitled "Occupational Accidents
  and Workers'  Compensation  Experience  for  NYS  Government  Employees"
  published   from  nineteen  hundred  eighty-seven  to  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-two:
    (a)  the  total  number  of  employees,  the  number  of  work-related
  accidents and the rate of work-related injuries and illnesses;
    (b)  the  number of lost work time injuries and illnesses and the rate
  of lost work time cases;
    (c) the number of days of lost work time and the number  and  rate  of
  lost full time employees;
    (d) the cost to the state of lost work time due to work-related cases;
    (e)  the  cost  to  the  state of medical expenses due to work-related
  injuries and illnesses;
    (f) a description of the types of injuries, the number of injuries and
  illnesses of each type and the most common causes of  those  cases,  and
  the body part injured;

    (g)  a  list  of  the  job titles with work-related injury and illness
  rates that are more than twenty-five percent above the average  for  all
  state agencies;
    (h)  a list of the state agencies with work-related injury and illness
  rates that are more than twenty-five percent above the average  for  all
  state agencies;
    (i)  work-related  injury  and illness rates for all state agencies by
  collective bargaining units; and
    (j) a summary of findings and recommendations prepared in consultation
  with the workers' compensation board and the state  insurance  fund  for
  state  agencies regarding the prevention of injury and illnesses and the
  reduction of costs due to these cases.