RAND Expert Biography
John Mendeloff
Director, RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace; Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Expertise
Health and safety in the workplace, risk regulation, public health policy
Recent Work
Regulation at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA); toxic substances regulation; impacts of OSHA inspections
Education
Ph.D. in public policy, M.P.P., University of California, Berkeley; B.A., Harvard University
Publications of Interest
Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis, John Mendeloff et al., RAND Corporation, 2006
"The Declining Effects of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injuries, 1979-1998," Wayne B. Gray and John M. Mendeloff, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 58, July 2005
"Inside the Black Box: How Do OSHA Inspections Lead to Reductions in Workplace Injuries?" John Mendeloff and Wayne B. Gray, Law and Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, Apr 2005
"Assessing the Accuracy of OSHA's Projections of the Benefits of New Safety Standards," Si Kyung Seong and John Mendeloff, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 45, No. 4, Apr 2004
The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation: How Overregulation Causes Underregulation (Regulation of Economic Activity), MIT Press, 1988
Recent RAND Publications are listed here.
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Workers' Compensation Monitor
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