The impact of OSHA recordkeeping regulation changes on occupational injury and illness trends in the US: a time-series analysis.
Objectives: The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) logs, indicates that the number of occupational injuries and illnesses in the US has steadily declined by 35.8% between 1992-2003. However, major changes to the OSHA re...
| Publicado en: | Occupational & Environmental Medicine Vol. 64; no. 7; pp. 454 - 461 |
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BMJ Publishing Group
Jul2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106011020&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106011020 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13510711 22H jtl: Occupational & Environmental Medicine issn: 13510711 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2007 vid: 64 iid: 7 pid: 8280 pub: BMJ Publishing Group artinfo: ui: 106011020 NLM17303676 2009630358 10.1136/oem.2006.029322 NLM17303676 PMC2078472 106011020 ppf: 454 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: The impact of OSHA recordkeeping regulation changes on occupational injury and illness trends in the US: a time-series analysis. aug: au: Friedman LS Forst L Friedman, Lee S Forst, Linda affil: University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Chicago, IL 60612, USA sug: subj: Accidents, Occupational Data Collection Standards Industry Occupational Diseases Epidemiology Occupational Health Legislation and Jurisprudence United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration Confounding Variable Data Collection Methods Incidence Management Information Systems Prevalence Regression Resource Databases Social Control United States Human ab: Objectives: The Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (SOII), based on Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) logs, indicates that the number of occupational injuries and illnesses in the US has steadily declined by 35.8% between 1992-2003. However, major changes to the OSHA recordkeeping standard occurred in 1995 and 2001. The authors assessed the relation between changes in OSHA recordkeeping regulations and the trend in occupational injuries and illnesses.Methods: SOII data available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for years 1992-2003 were collected. The authors assessed time series data using join-point regression models.Results: Before the first major recordkeeping change in 1995, injuries and illnesses declined annually by 0.5%. In the period 1995-2000 the slope declined by 3.1% annually (95% CI -3.7% to -2.5%), followed by another more precipitous decline occurring in 2001-2003 (-8.3%; 95% CI -10.0% to -6.6%). When stratifying the data, the authors continued to observe significant changes occurring in 1995 and 2001.Conclusions: The substantial declines in the number of injuries and illnesses correspond directly with changes in OSHA recordkeeping rules. Changes in employment, productivity, OSHA enforcement activity and sampling error do not explain the large decline. Based on the baseline slope (join-point regression analysis, 1992-4), the authors expected a decline of 407 964 injuries and illnesses during the period of follow-up if no intervention occurred; they actually observed a decline of 2.4 million injuries and illnesses of which 2 million or 83% of the decline can be attributed to the change in the OSHA recordkeeping rules. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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