Safety benefits of mandatory OSHA 10 hour training

Details

• Personal Author:
  Taylor EL
• Description:
  Construction is an inherently dangerous industry. Injury rates for the industry annually rank near the top of all U.S. industries. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is charged with regulating workplace safety. Towards this end, they provide enforcement, authorize safety trainers, and issue training certifications. For construction, there is an introductory ten hour safety course appropriately named OSHA 10 Hour Training (OSHA 10). In the past decade, seven states mandated that construction workers on most public projects receive certification in OSHA 10 to learn awareness of construction hazards and best practices in safety. In an attempt to validate these policy mandates, this paper constructs a statistical analysis for evidence of reduced injury rates in these states during the period 2004 - 2012 and examines fatality rate trends from 2008 - 2011. The results show mild evidence that injury rates were more than 1 percent lower as mandated training increased the trained workforce by 1 percentage point and that fatality rates post-mandate were lowest for training states. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Education Law Enforcement Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace

  More +
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Hazards Health-standards Injury-prevention Law-enforcement Mortality-rates Occupational-hazards Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Regulations Safety-education Standards Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs Training Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-studies

  More +
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Tennessee
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046587
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jun; :1-13
• Email:
  etaylo19@utk.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety benefits of mandatory OSHA 10 hour training
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:433514e5a8e110b8b77b1fa358fd08b6e0e5fb46558e08cef1f1dfef46a27b76c6d02b6bec9293d552c04b1bed9a4ec8dce57e5d09830461f480b9e2417ba8f8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201598/cdc_201598_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 865.97 KB ]