TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gray,Wayne B.
AU  - Jones,Carol Adaire
TI  - Longitudinal Patterns of Compliance with OSHA Health and Safety Regulations in the Manufacturing Sector
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3213
PY  - 1989
Y2  - December 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3213
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3213.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Wayne B. Gray
Department of Economics
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Tel: 508/793-7693
Fax: 508/793-8849
E-Mail: WGRAY@CLARKU.EDU
AB  - We examine the impact of OSHA enforcement on company compliance with agency regulations in the manufacturing sector, with a unique plant-level data set of inspection and compliance behavior during 1972-1983, the first twelve years of the agency operation. The analysis suggests that, for an individual inspected plant, the average effect of OSHA inspections during this period was to reduce expected citations by 3.0 or by .36 s.d. The total effect on expected citations of additional inspections can be decomposed into two parts; evaluated at the mean of the sample, 59 percent of the total change in citations occurred due to an increase in the compliance rate; 41 percent was due to a reduction in citations among continuing violators.
ER  -