Fall prevention in commercial construction by trade and construction activity: evaluating fall safety compliance among skilled trades in construction

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• Personal Author:
  Kim SS ; McQueen A ; Perry M
• Description:
  Falls are a leading cause of workplace death, lost work time, and costs to the construction industry. This study exploited a unique research opportunity - the construction of a new campus building to house the George Washington University Milken School of Public Health - to perform multiple repeat assessments of fall prevention compliance on one general contractor's site during the bulk of construction activity. Researchers developed the "GW Audit of Fall Risk" to evaluate fall prevention practices during twelve months of construction activity. They collected 644 observations during the period of study to evaluate compliance by construction trade, equipment type and stage of construction. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Education Health Promotion Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Fall-protection Health-programs Injury-prevention Regulations Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Standards Training Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046266
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Jan; :1
• Email:
  mperry@gwu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Fall prevention in commercial construction by trade and construction activity: evaluating fall safety compliance among skilled trades in construction
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0c73100837882c00a34ea8170450fbd3e3236b7b9e18b026fde828e134b0783d13a3c88ea3d045defa0a18a9a72f740d61e8e5b16da5fd8d977d9ed2898d2c41
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201372/cdc_201372_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 37.24 KB ]