Volume 27, Number 4 (Fall) 1992
Lanoie, Paul. 1992. "The Impact of Occupational Safety and Health Regulation on the Incidence of Workplace Accidents: Quebec, 1982-1987." Journal of Human Resources 27(4):643-660.
This paper is a first effort to investigate the overall effectiveness of politics adopted by a Canadian board dealing with occupational safety and health (OSH) in improving workplace health and safety. More specifically, considering all the most important aspects of government intervention in OSH (accident prevention, experience rating and compensation), the paper analyses the performance of the Quebec OSH board in reducing the frequency and the severity of workplace accidents during the period 1983-87.The results show that, at best, certain measures adopted by the Quebec OSH board led to a minor reduction in the frequency of accidents during the period under study.
The author is a professor at the Institut d'Économie Appliquée, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Montréal. He gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Fonds F.C.A.R. He would like to thank Richard Arnott, Charles Beach, Jean-Michel Cousineau, Geaorges Dionne, Bernard Fortin, Ed Nosal, Jacques Raynauld, Dan Usher, and four anonymous referees for helpful comments, and the Commission de la Santé et Sécurité au Travail for providing the data for this empirical investigation. He takes respionsibility for remaining errors. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in March 1993 through March 1996 from the author at the following address: École des Hautes Études Commerciales, 5225 avenue Decelles, Montréal, Canada, H3T 1V6.
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