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Contains Maui board cases only. Sampled claim files include major employers in sugar, ranching, railroads and canneries along with some smaller employers. Within these sample employers are all 1915 cases, cases involving disability or death and cases documenting precedent. Files contain, at a minimum, first and final reports. More involved cases include correspondence, doctor's reports, hearing transcripts, awards and payment receipts.

Limited to the Hawaii County board. Correspondence with employers on such matters as insurance policies and self insurance and on specific claims and reports; with Territorial offices on personnel, budget and inventory; with various state and national organizations, reviewing legislation, experience and procedures; and with the U.S. Employees Compensation Commission. Also includes legal opinions on topics such as average weekly wage determination, benefits to nonresident dependents and definition of casual laborers. Of interest are reports of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters covering job safety and job injuries on the plantations.

Limited to City and County of Honolulu. Consists of registers by file number, assigned consecutively upon receipt of accident report, and including names of employer and employee and date of accident. The three registers covering the years 1915 - 1927 are titled "Record of Consecutive Numbers of Accidents and/or Disabilities." The two volumes covering 1931-1933 and 1936-1938 are titled "Employers's Reports of Accidents."

Created or collected in the Division of Industrial Safety.
Consists of correspondence; memoranda; telegrams; notes; agendas and minutes of advisory and other committees; inspection, injury, visit and trip reports; speeches and official statements; press releases; schedules and programs of meetings and conferences; historical monographs; an interim safety manual; sketches and maps of work sites, including harbors; and charts, graphs and tables of data and statistics. A few non-permanent records, such as accident and inspection reports, have been retained as examples of function and process. The minutes include those of the Boiler Code Advisory Committee and the Industrial Safety Code Advisory Committee whose members, from government, private industry and labor, advised the Division on safety matters.

Lists case name and date of accident and notes disposition of appeals from decisions of the Director to the Appeals Board and Circuit Court; whether affirmed, reversed or modified.

Limited to City and County of Honolulu Industrial Accident Board/Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Consists of listing of employers and employees who had cases heard or reviewed by the board (and later the bureau, 1940-1944). Each entry shows the consecutive hearing number, the employer or employee and file number.

Contains a record of appropriations and expenditures by biennium, by various categories such as personal services, current expenses, etc.

Contains the Honolulu board's draft bills for proposed changes to Act 221 along with correspondence, research memos, surveys, reports and recommendations. Subject areas include second injury and rehabilitation programs, broadening of coverage and extension of benefits to employees not previously covered and changing the definition of dependents.

The minutes of the meetings of the Honolulu board run from its inception in 1915 through 1939, when its functions were taken over by the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation. Regular weekly hearings of the Bureau are included from 1940 through 1941. There is a six-month gap in 1917 when the board's activities were suspended pending a court ruling on the constitutionality of the law.
These records are contained in the 13 bound volumes, comprising 31 linear inches, and include fairly detailed summaries of claims before the boards, their disposition and awards, and names of parties present; rulings on the scope and extent of the law; definitions and interpretations of the law; procedural guidelines; rulings on forms of insurance policies; actions taken on self-insurance applications and delinquencies; entries on protests and appeals; notes on opinions solicited from the City & County attorney; notes on correspondence; early news clippings; some statistical data; and internal business matters, such as personnel and funding, etc. Records created after the functions of the Honolulu board were taken over by the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau are less detailed. Also includes copies of the first and second annual reports bound in vol. 1 for the six months ending Dec. 1915 and year ending 1916.

The minutes of the meetings of the Hawaii County board include notes on all cases and hearings, parties present, and issues, facts and findings. Also includes notations on self-insurance applications and delinquent employers. Other matters noted include correspondence and discussion on procedural inquiries and administration. Monthly vouchers and accounts payable are listed. These records are much less detailed than the Honolulu board minutes and are contained in one folder of .75 linear inches.

Created by the State Manpower Services Council, its successor the State Employment and Training Council, or by the county manpower planning councils or their successors, the county employment and training planning councils of the neighbor island counties. Collected in the Office of Employment and Training Administration, DLIR, or its predecessor, the Office of Manpower Planning.

Contains agendas and minutes, as well as attachments to the minutes, such as by-laws, correspondence, notes, memoranda, comments, statistical program summaries and reports. Documents the origin, composition and operations of the councils. Includes information on programs administered pursuant to the federal Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and the State Comprehensive Employment and Training (SCET) program.