The impact of IIPP policies on statewide injury rates in U.S. construction

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• Personal Author:
  Blatter D ; Hamideh Z ; Philips P ; Rao G ; Simnitt J ; Yu T
• Description:
  The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) asserts that Injury and Illness Prevention Programs (IIPPs) dramatically reduce workplace injuries. OSHA predicts that individual employers adopting IIPPs will experience as much as a 35 percent drop in injuries, and statewide adoption of mandatory IIPPs would result in a 12 percent decline. While critics concede that voluntary IIPPs can substantially reduce firm-level injury rates, weak and limited literature on state-level IIPP policies fails to show that mandatory IIPPs reduce injuries. A fixed effects panel data model of injury rates in U.S. construction from 1982 to 2008 shows that controlling for confounding factors including changes in reporting culture, long term trends in injury reduction, business cycle and other economic factors, mandatory IIPPs reduce total construction injury rates by 32 percent and lost workday injuries by 38 percent in areas of low union density. As construction union density rises, the impact of IIPPs declines. The relatively weak impact of both mandatory and quasi-voluntary IIPPs in more heavily unionized construction is explained by the greater prevalence of joint union-management training programs which provide practices and procedures similar to those promoted by IIPPs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Health Promotion Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Injury Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Disease-prevention Health-programs IIPP Illness Information-processing Information-systems Injury-prevention Occupational-health-programs Occupational-medicine-programs Occupational-safety-programs Prevention Recording-systems Reporting Culture Safety Safety-research Surveillance-programs Training Under-reporting Work-environment

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 8 ; Utah
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-29
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047208
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Sep; :1-29
• Email:
  philips@economics.utah.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:
  The impact of IIPP policies on statewide injury rates in U.S. construction
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202366/cdc_202366_DS1.pdf
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