Analysis of the relationship between regulation compliance and occupational injuries - Focusing on logistic and poisson regression analysis -

OSHA(Occupational Safety and Health Act) generally regulates employer`s business principles in the workplace to maintain safety environment. This act has the fundamental purpose to protect employee`s safety and health in the workplace by reducing industrial accidents. Authors tried to investigate the correlation between `occupational injuries and illnesses` and level of regulation compliance using Survey on Current Status of Occupational Safety & Health data by the various statistical methods, such as generalized regression analysis, logistic regression analysis and poison regression analysis in order to compare the results of those methods. The results have shown that the significant affecting compliance factors were different among those statistical methods. This means that specific interpretation should be considered based on each statistical method. In the future, relevant statistical technique will be developed considering the distribution type of occupational injuries.

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