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Effect of State Workplace Safety Laws on Occupational Injury Rates



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  • Description:
    The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of four common types of mandatory state-level workplace safety regulations on injury severity rates during the period 1992 to 1997 for the manufacturing sector. The full Poisson regression model showed safety committee regulations to have a highly significant reducing effect on injury rates, x2 (1, n = 3286) = 10.1774, P = 0.0014. Safety program regulations were significant at the a = 0.10 level, x2 (1, n = 3286) = 3.5676, P = 0.0589. The effect of insurance carrier loss control regulations in the full model was nonsignificant. However, insurance carrier loss control regulations were highly significant (a = 0.01) in the final reduced model. Targeting initiatives were nonsignificant in both the full and reduced models (a = 0.05). The study results are important to state and federal agencies considering adopting workplace safety regulations that are similar to the four types evaluated in this study. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    1076-2752
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Volume:
    43
  • Issue:
    12
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20057591
  • Citation:
    J Occup Environ Med 2001 Dec; 43(12):1001-1010
  • Contact Point Address:
    Dr Matt W. Smitha, 1517 9th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
  • Email:
    MattSmitha@Hotmail.Com
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2002
  • Performing Organization:
    Deep South Center for Occupational Health and Safety, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
  • Peer Reviewed:
    True
  • Start Date:
    19980701
  • Source Full Name:
    Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
  • End Date:
    20040630
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:b54d524170deef6f866259694f4ca2d8f7e3278bc8c937bafe48282f170ce666de92050d83fc384630d085924d7620d5d3d75905896b11236d99b2f7707867a7
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