Which Safety Standards Matter?

哪些安全标准重要？

• 批准号: 9037820
• 负责人: John Mendeloff
• 金额: $ 35.28万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-12-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9037820
• 关键词: Safety; Standards; Matter

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The research community knows very little about how coming into compliance with specific safety standards contributes to injury prevention. Only a few studies have addressed this issue even though a better understanding would help OSHA target its inspections better among establishment; and it would help the inspector decide which violations to focus on once they arrived at a worksite. The research proposed here will systematically examine the effects of compliance with particular standards by looking at changes in outcomes following the abatement of violations of those standards. In addition to examining the change in the number of injuries, the study will also look at their severity by using workers' compensation data to measure the financial losses that firms suffer as a result of the types of injuries that decline after specific standards are cited. The effectiveness of coming into compliance also depends upon its duration. We develop new methods to estimate the average duration of compliance with different standards. In addition, we provide what appear to be the first standard-specific estimates of the costs of compliance. To obtain our findings, we will use several different data sets. These include workers' compensation data from California and Pennsylvania as well as data from the national Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses.

描述（由申请人提供）：研究界对遵守特定的安全标准如何有助于预防伤害知之甚少。只有少数研究解决了这个问题，即使更好的理解将有助于OSHA更好地在企业中进行检查；这将有助于检查员在到达工地后决定关注哪些违规行为。这里提出的研究将通过观察减少违反这些标准后结果的变化，系统地检查遵守特定标准的影响。除了检查受伤数量的变化外，该研究还将通过使用