Occupational licensing and injuries and death in construction: an analysis of electricians and plumbers

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• Personal Author:
  Kleiner MM ; Park KW
• Description:
  Despite the growth of occupational licensing as an important labor market institution there has been little empirical work on the influence of occupational regulation on workplace injuries and deaths. Our analysis focuses on two major construction occupations, electricians and plumbers, in the U.S. The industry and occupations we study have a relatively large number of deaths and injuries in comparison to other industries, and have also recently experienced an upsurge in occupational regulation. Specifically, we examine how the implementation or changes in occupational requirements, apprenticeships and higher-quality training programs by state government through occupational licensing's influence both on the occurrence and severity of injuries and deaths using proprietary data from the Survey of Occupational Injury and Illness (SOII) data and the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) from 1992 to 2007. We find little influence of occupational licensing on the measures of death and injuries in the data we examine from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Electricity Mortality Occupational Health Quality Control Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-equipment Construction-materials Construction-workers Electrical-workers Information-retrieval-systems Injuries Injury-prevention Mortality-rates Plumbers Plumbing Professional-workers Quality-standards Regulations Standards Statistical-analysis Training

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• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-38
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040020
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2010 Sep; :1-38
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Department,AFL-CIO, CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational Licensing and Injuries and Death in Construction: An Analysis of Electricians and Plumbers
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f2a2ff79459b85278bc1618f38a9e2dab964e7f5e4d6eacf7546d2bd179528d78b6254ebb7a76b9482b1f26fc5fcafd59cbe791a51b7ea2276449dda90437789
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193027/cdc_193027_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 523.97 KB ]