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To: TimF who wrote (28990)	9/27/2012 5:10:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

“ Randomized Government Safety Inspections Reduce Worker Injuries with no Detectable Job Loss,” found that workplace injury claims dropped 9.4% at randomly chosen businesses in the four years following an inspection by the California OSHA program, compared with employers not inspected. Those same employers also saved an average of 26% on workers’ compensation costs, when compared with similar firms that were not inspected. This means that the average employer saved $355,000 (in 2011 dollars) as a result of an OSHA inspection. The effects were seen among small and large employers. Translated to the nation as a whole, OSHA inspections prevent thousands of workplace injuries, while saving employers money and protecting jobs. Michael Toffel, Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, estimates that OSHA inspections nationwide could be saving employers $6 billion. And this doesn’t count the costs of lost production when workers are injured or made sick by their jobs or the pain and suffering of employees that is not compensated. = Since OSHA began – After the cotton dust standard passed, brown lung disease in textile workers dropped from 12 percent to 1 percent. Since the grain handling standard was issued, grain explosions fell 42 percent, worker injuries fell 60 percent, and worker deaths fell 70 percent. In the last decade, our needlestick and bloodborne pathogen standards have helped shield healthcare workers from getting sick or dying from hepatitis B. osha.gov