Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Construction Industry

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• Personal Author:
  Bunting, Jessica ; Trueblood, Amber ; Rinehart, Richard ; Cain, Chris Trahan
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  COVID-19 had a significant impact on the construction industry, whose workers were labeled “essential” and therefore largely remained on the job. This paper describes how CPWR helped control the spread of COVID-19 in the construction industry by: 1) developing and disseminating educational materials and providing guidance on best practices for stopping the spread of viruses, 2) tracking and analyzing data on COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination, and 3) evaluating the effectiveness of distance learning methods and sharing the findings broadly to assist others in continuing important safety and health training programs. The lessons from these efforts provide a framework for an expedited response to future public health crises that can be applied to construction and other industries with essential workers in similar working conditions.
  
  This research was funded by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) grant U60OH009762. The findings and conclusions in this manuscript, as well as the resources and products described, are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of NIOSH.
  
  RR2023-Responding_COVID-19_Construction_Industry.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry COVID-19 Disease Outbreaks
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) grant U60OH009762
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  12 numbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4dca9bd01c18a354c1875d4e86ccf7d65ec6e559503cb39ea60451a51813c094b61e460b9d2c28272351685ee08b0d337406dec54b1b5c16e5a19a8884317671
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/152786/cdc_152786_DS1.pdf
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