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The Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services ensures that all food establishments in the City of Boston meet relevant sanitary codes and standards. Businesses that serve food are inspected at least once a year, and follow-up inspections are performed on high risk establishments. Health inspections are also conducted in response to complaints of unsanitary conditions or illness. This is a legacy dataset containing records of individual inspections and results.

These data sets include property and code violations from January 1st, 2010 to December 31st, 2021. The data were accessed from boston.data.gov under Public Works Violations and Building and Property Violations. Code violations are issued by the Public Works Department of Code Enforcement Division for breaches of State and City sanitary codes. Building and Property violations are issued by the Building and Structures Division of the Inspectional Services Department and address issues in with housing, health, sanitation, and safety regulations. These data have been processed to generate metrics at three analytic levels: record (Violations.2010_2021), parcel (Violations.2010_2021.Parcel), and neighborhood level (Violations.2010_2021.Neighborhood). These data sets were constructed as part of a collaboration with Boston’s Problem Properties Task Force funded by the National Science Foundation’s Law and Social Science Program.

Massachusetts Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Dataset

  Dataset Description

This dataset contains workplace safety information extracted from the Massachusetts Occupational Safety and Health Statistics Program between 2017 and 2022, including injuries by industry, occupation, and demographic data. It provides structured, machine-readable data converted from PDF reports that offer insights into workplace safety trends across Massachusetts.

  Overview

The… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/evijit/MA_Occupational_Safety_Reports.

Authorities: M.G.L. c. 143, �� 93-100: Inspection and Regulation of, and Licenses for, Buildings, Elevators and Cinematographs; 780 CMR: Massachusetts State Building Code. Jurisdiction: Structural, life, and fire safety of buildings and structures in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Applicability: New construction, renovation, or demolition of existing structures, and changes of use or occupancy of an existing building must conform to the provisions of the Massachusetts State Building Code. Regulatory The purpose of the State Building Code is to protect public safety by ensuring that buildings that are intended for occupancy are structurally sound, are constructed of appropriate materials, have adequate egress for fire safety, promote energy conservation, and have adequate sanitary facilities. The building code is written by the State Board of Regulations and Standards, and is administered locally by board-certified building inspectors. Review Process: Application for a building permit is made to the local building inspector. The application is, to some extent, locally determined, but certain minimum information, such as a site description, contractor information, a description of the proposed work, and a cost estimate must be included. The local building official will issue a building permit and will also inspect the construction to ensure compliance with the building code. Forms: Locally determined. Fees Locally determined. Website: Board of Building Regulations and Standards. Contact: Local Building Department.

These datasets include Food Establishment Inspections processed from the city’s open data initiative (data.boston.gov), and the connection with data scraped from Yelp (namely, Yelp reviews) scraped by BARI. The data is within the city of Boston. The Food Inspections dataset is released by the Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services of Boston which ensures that all food establishments in the City of Boston meet relevant sanitary codes and standards. The data scraped from Yelp pages includes information about restaurants in Boston that were reviewed on yelp.com. Thus, the data includes two files: Food.Inspections.Records.csv contains information about food inspections at record level (i.e. each record for each restaurant is included). Food.Inspections.Yelp.Restaurant.csv contains information about food inspections at the restaurant level plus information from Yelp reviews also at the restaurant level.

The Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services (ISD) creates and enforces food safety codes to protect public health. All businesses which prepare and sell food to the public must possess a food service permit. In order to qualify for a permit, at least one full time employee must be must be certified through an accredited food manager program, which provides guidance on handling and serving food to the public.

This dataset contains a list of restaurants that met the City's standards to become licensed food service establishments.