Pilot OSHA Citation Process Increases Employer Responsiveness (Brief)
DOL Behavioral Interventions Project Brief
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research
May 31, 2017
Key Findings:
- Changes to OSHA’s citation process informed by behavioral science increased employers’ rate of response to citations by 3.9 percentage points in Phase 1 and 5.4 percentage points in Phase 2. In Phase 2, employers under the new process were 4.4 percentage points less likely to be referred to the national office for debt collection.
Project
Behavioral Interventions for Labor-Related Programs
Funders
U.S. Department of Labor
Time Frame
2014-2017
Senior Staff
Jonah Deutsch
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