Occupational Safety and Health Administration Backgrounders & Briefs

2011 Death on the Job

04/01/2011

AFL-CIO. April 2011.

The “2011 Death on the Job” report is one of the single most comprehensive informational collection relating to occupational safety and health in America. They’ve got everything from the fatality numbers since 1970, injury and illness rates, the number of inspections in relation to the ILO’s suggested ratios, the particularly sobering figures facing Hispanic workers, and much, much more. If you have a statistical question, they have an answer for it here.

2010 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities

01/01/2010

Office of Management and Budget. 2010.

“2010 Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal Regulations and Unfunded Mandates on State, Local, and Tribal Entities” is a major review of all the federal government's regulations. The report chronicles the costs and benefits of all federal regulations between 1999 and 2009. The agencies found that the average annual cost of their regulations are between $43 and $55 billion, while the annual benefits are between $128 and $616 billion.

The Bush Legacy: An Assault on Public Protections

01/14/2009

Gray Davidson, Gary D. Bass, Adam Hughes, Craig Jennings, Matthew Madia, and Rick Melberth. OMB Watch. January 14, 2009.

“The Bush Legacy: An Assault on Public Protections” provides a detailed history of the Bush administration’s assault on America’s regulatory institutions.

Investigation Report: Combustible Dust Hazard Study

11/01/2006

U.S. Chemical Hazard and Safety Board. November 2006.

This important study from the looks at dust explosions, which are a danger in any industry that creates a fine, dusty byproduct (candy, cotton, grain, coal, various metals).

Gauging Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety and Health

09/01/1995

The Office of Technology Assessment. September 1995.

Gauging Control Technology and Regulatory Impacts in Occupational Safety and Health: An Appraisal of OSHA's Analytic Approach includes multiple instances where OSHA regulations —including cotton dust and vinyl chloride standards — were far, far cheaper than their opponents predicted. (This is one of the last tasks the OTA completed before the Gingrich congress eliminated the agency.)

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