Matthew Johnson, an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, has looked at the question in a paper titled – Regulation by Shaming: Deterrence Effects of Publicizing Violations of Workplace Safety and Health Laws (American Economic Review, June 2020). Johnson found that publicizing a workplace’s violations led other facilities to substantially improve their compliance and experience fewer occupational injuries and that “OSHA would need to conduct 210 additional inspections to achieve the same improvement in compliance as achieved with a single press release.” “When OSHA did an inspection of a workplace, that workplace went on to experience significantly fewer injuries relative to similar workplaces that didn’t get inspected.”