Which Safety Standards Matter?

哪些安全标准重要？

• 批准号: 8870197
• 负责人: John Mendeloff
• 金额: $ 32.31万
• 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/8870197
• 关键词: Safety; Standards; Matter

Abstract 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. 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.

摘要 研究界对如何遵守特定的安全标准知之甚少。 有助于预防伤害。只有少数研究已经解决了这个问题，即使一个更好的 理解将有助于OSHA更好地在机构中进行检查;这将有助于 检查员一到工地就决定重点检查哪些违规行为。本文提出的研究将 通过观察结果的变化，系统地检查遵守特定标准的效果 在违反这些标准的行为减少之后。除了审查人数的变化外， 该研究还将通过使用工人的赔偿数据来衡量经济损失， 在引用特定标准后，企业因伤害类型而遭受的损失减少。的 遵约的有效性还取决于遵约的持续时间。我们开发了新的方法来估计 遵守不同标准的平均持续时间。为了获得我们的研究结果，我们将使用几种不同的 数据集。这些数据包括来自加州和宾夕法尼亚州的工人薪酬数据，以及来自 全国工伤和职业病调查。