Investigation of the viability of designing for safety

Details

• Personal Author:
  Behm M ; Gambatese JA ; Hinze J
• Description:
  Construction workers historically have experienced more deaths from injuries and more injuries and illnesses requiring time off than workers in any other industry. (The rate of fatal injuries is higher in agriculture, mining, and transportation.) In recent years the construction industry has taken many steps to ensure safe working conditions and enable safe work practices, yet construction work remains a hazardous occupation. Addressing safety in the project design, before construction begins, has been proposed as an additional method for improving construction worker safety and health. However, consideration of worker safety is not traditionally part of the project designer's role. This study investigated the viability of addressing construction worker safety and health in the project's design, known as designing for safety. Research activities included a review of the literature on designing for safety, an examination of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) construction standards containing references to design professionals, and a pilot survey of architects and engineers employed as construction design professionals. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-workers Exposure-levels Exposure-limits Hazards Injuries Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Traumatic-injuries Work-environment Workers

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• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Maryland ; North Carolina ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-39
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040723
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2005 May; :1-39
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19990930
• Source Full Name:
  Investigation of the viability of designing for safety
• End Date:
  20050630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d8bcbfc573110ba923cf5dae1aab82217776a56c5e7271e57711f2af7b4a774d845c94d0f10a988f6d881dc3c34cc3d95e7b10a8d0b5f4f6d7e47cafe2b5f321
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/193488/cdc_193488_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 245.38 KB ]