Compliance with OSHA record-keeping requirements.

Seligman, Paul J.; Sieber, William K.; Pedersen, David; Sundin, David S.; Frazier, Todd M.

doi:10.2105/ajph.78.9.1218

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“…Research indicates that companies with fewer than 100 employees are more likely to inadequately maintain OSHA injury and illness records. Seligman and colleagues 28 found that only 60% of companies employing between 10 to 99 employees maintained OSHA log files for injuries and illnesses. Approximately 50% of the companies in the US employ fewer than 100 employees.…”

Section: Underreporting By Employersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of OSHA recordkeeping regulation changes on occupational injury and illness trends in the US: a time-series analysis

Friedman

Forst²

2007

Occup Environ Med

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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.

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Section: Underreporting By Employersmentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of OSHA recordkeeping regulation changes on occupational injury and illness trends in the US: a time-series analysis

Friedman

Forst²

2007

Occup Environ Med

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“…15,16 Small firms (fewer than 11 employees) are more likely than medium and large firms to be newly formed and frequently go out of business. 17 New owners might not be aware of the law.…”

Section: Causes Of Under-and Overreporting Among Firms Covered By Thementioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, Seligman et al 15 found that OSHA recordkeeping was the worst for small firms and the best for large firms. Second, the BLS Annual Survey data indicate that small firms have among the lowest reported injury rates of all firms.…”

Section: Empiric Evidence On Inaccurate Reportingmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Estimate of the U.S. Government’s Undercount of Nonfatal Occupational Injuries

Leigh

Marcin

Miller

2004

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Debate surrounds the size of the underestimate of nonfatal occupational injuries produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). We developed models that separated categories of injuries: BLS Annual Survey, federal government, agriculture, state and local government, self-employed outside agriculture, and all other. The models generated varying estimates depending on the assumptions for each category pertaining to job risks and amount of underreporting. We offered justification for the assumptions based on published studies as well as our own analyses of BLS data. The models suggested the Annual Survey missed from 0% to 70% of the number of injuries (from private firms, excluding the self-employed) it was designed to capture. However, when we included firms and governments the Annual Survey was not designed to capture, and considered reasonable assumptions regarding underreporting, we estimated the BLS missed between 33% and 69% of all injuries. We concluded that there was substantial undercapture in the BLS Annual Survey, some due to the excluded categories of government workers and the self-employed, as well as some due to underreporting.

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“…Leigh, Marcin, and Miller (2004) review many studies that indicate that the BLS survey substantially undercounts nonfatal injuries, perhaps by 40 percent for the sectors covered, and that "Evidence suggests that small firms are especially prone to underreport." Seligman et al (1988) reported that compliance with OSHA recordkeeping requirements was poorest at small firms and best at the largest ones. Glanzer et al's (1998) study of a large construction project found that underreporting was lower for injuries that involved lost workdays than for injuries without lost workdays.…”

Section: Underreporting and Sizementioning

confidence: 99%