John Mendeloff
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Education
Overview
Biography
John Mendeloff is the director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. He is also a professor at the University of Pittsburgh with appointments in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Public Health, and the Law School. He has written numerous books and articles about workplace safety and health and other issues of risk regulation. He has received numerous research grants and has consulted extensively for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for safety agencies in Ontario, British Columbia, and New Zealand. He has served on panels dealing with workplace safety for the National Academy of Sciences, the Government Accountability Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment. His focus has been how government agencies can better use information in designing and implementing their policies and programs. Mendeloff received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Focus
Concurrent Non-RAND Positions
Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of PittsburghRecent Projects
- Regulation at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
- Toxic substances regulation
- Impacts of OSHA inspections
Selected Publications
John Mendeloff et al., Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis, RAND Corporation (TR-371), 2006
John Mendeloff and Wayne B. Gray, "Inside the Black Box: How Do OSHA Inspections Lead to Reductions in Workplace Injuries?" Law and Policy, 27(2), 2005
Wayne B. Gray and John M. Mendeloff, "The Declining Effects of OSHA Inspections on Manufacturing Injuries, 1979-1998," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 58, 2005
Si Kyung Seong and John Mendeloff, "Assessing the Accuracy of OSHA's Projections of the Benefits of New Safety Standards," American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 45(4), 2004
John Mendeloff, The Dilemma of Toxic Substance Regulation: How Overregulation Causes Underregulation (Regulation of Economic Activity), MIT Press, 1988
Recent Media Appearances
Interviews: Workers' Compensation Monitor
Civil Justice
Biography
John Mendeloff is the director of the RAND Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace. He is also a professor at the University of Pittsburgh with appointments in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, the School of Public Health, and the Law School. He has written numerous books and articles about workplace safety and health and other issues of risk regulation. He has received numerous research grants and has consulted extensively for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for safety agencies in Ontario, British Columbia, and New Zealand. He has served on panels dealing with workplace safety for the National Academy of Sciences, the Government Accountability Office, and the Office of Technology Assessment. His focus has been how government agencies can better use information in designing and implementing their policies and programs. Mendeloff received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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