Evaluation of the impact of a mandatory safety training regulation on occupational injury and fatality rates among U.S. Stone, sand and gravel miners

Аннотация

There is little evidence that MSHA's Part 46 safety and health training regulation had an impact on overall fatality rates, or rates related to lost-time, restrictedduty or medical-treatment-only injuries. While it is plausible that there is a causal relationship between the regulatory intervention and the statistically significant decline in the rate of permanently-disabling injuries, inconsistency in the results preclude attributing the observed outcome to the intervention. Further analysis of data is needed.