Fall hazards in commercial construction: lessons learned from a unique opportunity

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• Personal Author:
  Christensen T ; Fullen M ; Kim S-S ; Lippy B ; Lowenthal L ; McCann M ; McQueen A ; Perry M ; Platner J ; Powell DP ; Whitmore M
• Description:
  Researchers at The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health recognized that they had a rare opportunity when the university made the decision to construct a new building to house the school on the university's Foggy Bottom campus in Washington, D.C. The occupational health and construction safety experts in the school's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health understood that the project presented the chance to use the construction site as a "living laboratory." Their research showed that fall hazards in commercial construction had received much less attention than in residential construction. A team led by Melissa Perry, Professor and Chair of the school's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, created a new assessment tool, the GW Audit of Fall Risks (GAFR), to aid in the study. This assessment instrument is designed to collect information about the use of equipment at construction sites including guardrails, scaffolding, ladders, aerial lifts, and safety harnesses. It enables researchers to assess whether the equipment is being used in accordance with the safety guidelines established by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). [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 ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-20
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046269
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Jan; :1-20
• 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 hazards in commercial construction: lessons learned from a unique opportunity
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2bca897db03481b624e69c51d0a6e1407f25647599dfae232a29a85eda6073262371131fcf27c4ba6d7cdb773ed0c9b4fe28bf19d46eafb02a38b7fcb35f3935
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201375/cdc_201375_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 6.07 MB ]