Nursing homes that unionize are more likely to report workplace injury and illness data to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a study published in the journal Health Affairs says.
by educating workers, monitoring workplaces and coordinating with OSHA to increase the likelihood of workplace inspections.workplace injuries
and illnesses. To do this first of a kind study, Dean and his colleagues examined data on 15,921 nursing home unions from 48 states during the period 2016–2021. In the study, the researchers focused on compliance with OSHA reporting requirements rather than reported injury rates. Workers in non-unionized nursing homes may be afraid to report on the job injuries which would make the injury rate reported by the nursing home appear to be low. To avoid that bias, the researchers decided to look at nursing home compliance with OSHA rules rather than the artificially low workplace injury rates, Dean said.
The researchers found that two years after unionization, nursing homes were 31.1 percentage points more likely than nonunion nursing homes tothe required data to OSHA. This estimate represents a 78% increase in employer compliance relative to the average compliance rate among all nursing homes during the study period.
The results have implications for public health leaders, nursing home administrators, patients, workers and others. Dean and the authors note that the pandemic illustrated the broader public health consequences of workplace safety in nursing homes as previous studies linked worker COVID-19 infection rates to death rates among residents.
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