Occupational safety and health articles in the Monthly Labor Review

This week I want to draw your attention to a series of articles published in the Monthly Labor Review over the past several months on occupational safety and health. The BLS Occupational Safety and Health Statistics (OSHS) program held a data users’ workshop in Washington, DC, on May 15–16, 2013. The gathering coincided with the 40th anniversary of the OSHS program. The speakers and participants included data users and researchers in the health and safety community within government, private industry, labor, and academia. Safety and health professionals also presented research papers. We began publishing these papers in the Monthly Labor Review in October 2013. Four papers have been published so far, and two more will be published soon. Here is the list of those articles:

• Using workplace safety and health data for injury prevention
• Using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries to estimate the “value of a statistical life”
• An analysis of fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites, 2003–2010
• Using OSHA inspection data to analyze respirator protection program compliance
• Fatal occupational injuries involving contractors, 2011—coming soon
• Life, limbs, and licensing: occupational regulation, wages, and workplace safety of electricians, 1992–2007—coming soon