An evaluation of the California injury and illness prevention program /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Mendeloff, John M. (Author), Gray, Wayne B. (Wayne Burger), 1955- (Author), Haviland, Amelia (Author), Main, Regan (Author), Xia, Jing (Author)
Corporate Authors:	California. Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (sponsoring body.), JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace, 2012.
Series:	Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1190-CHSWC.
Subjects:	Industrial safety > California. Industrial safety > California > Evaluation. Occupational diseases > California > Prevention. Occupational Injuries > prevention & control. California. Industrial safety. Industrial safety > Evaluation. Occupational diseases > Prevention. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction
California's Injury and Illness Prevention Program
Injury and Illness Prevention Program Implementation and Trends in Compliance
Limitations of Previous Research
Evaluation Design: The Challenge of Establishing Causality
State-Level Impact
Injury Performance of Compliant and Noncompliant Firms: The Lookback Models 57 Findings
Effects of Injury and Illness Prevention Program Violations on Changes in Injuries: The Change Models
Conclusions: The Impact of the California Injury and Illness Prevention Program Standard
Appendix A: Construction of the Data Sets
Appendix B: Modifications to the Workers' Compensation Information System and Occupational Safety and Health Administration Data Initiative Data
Appendix C: Lookback Analyses
Appendix D: Regression Results from Change Models.