Key Findings from Research: The Role of Public Policies in Preventing Construction Deaths

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• Alternative Title:
  The Role of Public Policies in Preventing Construction Deaths: Preventing construction deaths: the role of public policies
• Journal Article:
  Key findings from research
• Personal Author:
  Gray, Wayne B. ; Mendeloff, John
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  Construction remains one of America's most dangerous industries, with approximately 1,000 deaths annually in recent years. This study examines two areas of public policy - state workers' compensation (WC) programs and federal and state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) activities - to determine whether stronger direct financial incentives and/or stronger regulatory enforcement are associated with reduced fatalities in construction. The researchers used detailed state-level fatality data for all 50 states from 1992 to 2016 from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. They focused on deaths instead of non-fatal injuries because the former are reported more completely and provide a significantly different ranking of states. They excluded deaths due to violence and most transportation deaths to limit the analysis to fatalities that occurred during construction activities. Read the report: https://bit.ly/3TPhjnJ. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Mortality Occupational Health Public Policy Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction industry; Regulations; Policy; Workers Compensation; Fatalities; Mortality rates; Injury prevention
• Source:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2022 Oct; :1
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1 pdf page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066209
• Citation:
  Key findings from research. Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2022 Oct; :1
• Contact Point Address:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2023
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6e84260350ffbf4429849ebd94a482ac05bac18232b25b0dd61c2afc15242e8fa958c36da993ecbad90dd8e6e57805913581bee352bc52175c6533134887d865
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/138733/cdc_138733_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 90.82 KB ]