Workplace Safety Evidence
08/31/2011
WorkSafe. August 31, 2011.
Preventing workplace deaths, injuries, illnesses, and diseases protects workers, first and foremost. But ensuring the health and safety may also be in the best interest of employers.
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07/01/2011
By Justin Feldman, Public Citizen. July 2011.
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05/29/2011
By Alex Burdorf and Dick Heederik. British Occupational Hygiene Society. May 29, 2011.
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04/14/2011
By Taylor Lincoln and Negah Mouzoon. Public Citizen. April 2011.
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10/01/2010
Pew Environmental Group. October 2010.
“Industry Opposition to Government Regulation” provides a nice chart comparing the real price tags of environmental, safety, and health regulations to industry’s original estimation of their costs. Very clear, very succinct.
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07/01/2010
By Linda S. Birnbaum, Jane C. Schroeder, Hugh A. Tilson. Environmental Health Perspectives. July 1, 2010.
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07/01/2005
OMB Watch. July 2005.
OMB Watch compiled this useful chart of the predicted costs of various federal regulations, including OSHA standards, and the actual costs (“The Going-Out-of-Business Myth”). It includes an “Ex Ante” and an “Ex Post” column. Very good for a quick look at the industry’s history of exaggeration.
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03/01/2005
Occupational Safety and Health Administration. March 2005.
The agency finds that the standard is successful, that the need for it still exists, and that small businesses are not negatively affected by it.
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02/01/2004
Ruth Ruttenberg and Associates, Inc. Public Citizen. February 2004.
“Not Too Costly, After All” shows that regulators regularly overestimate the costs of their own regulations. “Regulatory agencies often overestimate the cost of regulatory compliance, sometimes substantially. There are dozens of examples of costs being inflated and the potential for innovation and productivity-enhancing activities ignored.”
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06/01/2003
Kelly M. Pyrek. Infection Control Today. June 1, 2003.
“Study Shows Needlestick Injuries…On the Gradual Decline" features a long with interview of Jane Perry, communications director for the IHWSC, on the improvements in the needlestick numbers following OSHA’s regulatory efforts. The rate has dropped from 19.5 needlestick injuries per occupied bed (in 1993 before the updating of the standard) to 9.6 needlestick injuries per occupied bed in 2001.
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