Contingent Workers: Workers’ Compensation Data Analysis Strategies and Limitations

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• Personal Author:
  Foley M ; Ruser J ; Shor G ; Shuford H ; Sygnatur E
• Description:
  The growth of the contingent workforce presents many challenges in the occupational safety and health arena. State and federal laws impose obligations and rights on employees and employers, but contingent work raises issues regarding responsibilities to maintain a safe workplace and difficulties in collecting and reporting data on injuries and illnesses. Contingent work may involve uncertainty about the length of employment, control over the labor process, degree of regulatory, or statutory protections, and access to benefits under workers' compensation. The paper highlights differences in regulatory protections and benefits among various types of contingent workers and how these different arrangements affect safety incentives. It discusses challenges caused by contingent work for accurate data reporting in existing injury and illness surveillance and benefit programs, differences between categories of contingent work in their coverage in various data sources, and opportunities for overcoming obstacles to effectively using workers' compensation data. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Contingent Workers Injuries Occupational Safety And Health Professional Employer Organizations Surveillance Temporary Workers Worker Safety Workers Compensation
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; District of Columbia ; New York ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  57
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20061054
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2014 Jul; 57(7):764-775
• Contact Point Address:
  Michael Foley, MA, SHARP Program, Department of Labor and Industries, Washington State, PO Box 44330, Olympia, WA 98504
• Email:
  folm235@lni.wa.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Performing Organization:
  Washington State Department of Labor and Industries
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1a8248889a6d3cb1221485d60b9ca41a87d8229a52960d72452a6bda222c2bfed602a4d7ffe099ba968ea6121757c7efa9d09a1c8ad5145e80a34f881f7aba28
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/224732/cdc_224732_DS1.pdf
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