Safety Saves Money for Local Framing Contractor – HomeSafe Pilot Program Brings New Approach to How the Job Is Done

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• Personal Author:
  Bigelow PL ; Gilkey DP
• Description:
  To gauge the effectiveness of the Homesafe program, representatives from Colorado State University are studying how companies' approach to safety changes (if at all). Following are excerpts from a doctoral thesis titled "Safety Developments in the Colorado Home Building Industry: A Preliminary Homesafe Case Study" written by Philip Bigelow and David Gilkey. This paper offers a look at the safety practices instilled at Bader/Burke & Co. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries

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• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  14
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030862
• Citation:
  Safe Guard 1997 May; 4(14):1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Department of Environmental Health, Colorado State University, 104 Environmental Health Bldg., Fort Collins, CO 80525, USA
• Email:
  pbigelow@lamar.colostate.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Intervention Effectiveness Research
• Performing Organization:
  Colorado State University, Environmental Health Department, Fort Collins, Colorado
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  Safe Guard
• End Date:
  20000929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7a5f742acf4b718ae57da61293cf5509817a4a290d8132e02c3091e4e269e0689bfcf994c06c28f65dc243488bd75ee96de963915fca1b047dbaeae216c8bf4d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/191327/cdc_191327_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 584.95 KB ]