THE IMPACT OF OSHA INSPECTIONS ON MANUFACTURING INJURIES

该项目的目标是1)创建一个数据集，提供有关职业安全与健康管理局（OSHA）检查对制造业伤害的影响的最丰富的可用信息来源；2)开始探索它，以产生新的见解，关于检查在不同情况下的影响，一般执法策略的影响，以及新的安全标准的影响。我们相信，我们的工作将立即对OSHA官员有用，将为他们如何在未来探索这些数据提供一个模型，并将为对更广泛问题感兴趣的伤害研究人员提供资源。该项目将创建一个新的数据集，将职业安全与卫生管理局综合管理信息系统（IMIS）的检查数据与劳工统计局职业伤害和疾病调查中至少连续三年（1992年至1998年）的制造工厂的伤害数据结合起来。由于两个集合中没有公共标识符，因此该任务需要复杂的匹配技术。早期的研究确实研究了一个类似的数据集，该数据集研究了20世纪80年代的检查情况。我们的分析将更广泛，并将利用两个新特征：1)数据集现在包含工伤信息和涉及休假天数的病例的人口统计学特征；2)数据集现在包含了所有的状态。该数据集将用于几个目的，包括：复制早期的研究，看看他们的一般发现是否有处罚的OSHA检查（而不是没有处罚的OSHA检查）导致伤害减少。将这些分析扩展到考虑新的变量，并检查对不同亚群植物的影响。审查引用特定侵权行为对预防与这些侵权行为有关的特定伤害的影响。这里的测试将增进我们对OSHA如何实现其效果的理解。研究新的安全标准在减少伤害方面的作用，以及检查在提高伤害效果方面的作用。研究在不同的州和地区实施不同的执法策略的效果。为了便于研究人员探索同一行业植物间伤害率差异的一些原因

This project's objectives are 1) to create a dataset that will provide the richest available source of information about the effects of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspections on injuries in manufacturing; and 2) to begin to explore it to produce new insights about the effects of inspections in different settings, the effects of general enforcement strategies, and the effects of new safety standards. We believe that our work will be immediately useful to OSHA officials, will provide a model of how they can explore these data in the future and will provide a resource to injury researchers interested in a broader range of issues. This project will create a new dataset combining inspection data from OSHA's Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) system with injury data on manufacturing plants that have been in the Bureau of Labor Statistics's Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses for at least 3 continuous years between 1992 and 1998. Because there is no common identifier in both sets, this task requires sophisticated matching techniques. Earlier studies did examine a similar dataset which looked at inspections in the 1980s. Our analyses will be more extensive and will make use of two new features: 1) the dataset now contains information on injury and demographic characteristics for cases involving days away from work; and 2) the dataset now includes all states. The dataset will be used for several purposes, including: To replicate earlier studies to see whether their general finding that OSHA inspections with penalties (but not those without penalties) led to injury reductions. To expand those analyses to consider new variables and to examine effects on different subgroups of plants. To examine the effects of citing particular violations on the prevention of particular injuries related to those violations. Tests here will improve our understanding of how OSHA achieves its effects. To examine the role of new safety standards in reducing injuries and the role of inspections in boosting that effect. To examine the effects of different enforcement strategies carried out in different states and regions. To facilitate efforts by researchers to explore some of the reasons for variations in injury rates among plants in the same industry