Moving research to practice through partnership: a case study in asphalt paving

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• Personal Author:
  Baker R ; Chang C ; Nixon L
• Description:
  Background: Multi-stakeholder partnerships play a critical role in dissemination and implementation in health and safety. To better document and understand construction partnerships that have successfully scaled up effective interventions to protect workers, this case study focused on the collaborative processes of the Asphalt Paving Partnership. In the 1990s, this partnership developed, evaluated, disseminated, and achieved near universal, voluntary adoption of paver engineering controls to reduce exposure to asphalt fumes. Methods: We used in-depth interviews (n=15) and document review in the case study. Results: We describe contextual factors that both facilitated and challenged the formation of the collaboration, central themes and group processes, and research to practice (r2p) outcomes. Conclusions: The Asphalt Paving Partnership offers insight into how multi-stakeholder partnerships in construction can draw upon the strengths of diverse members to improve the dissemination and adoption of health and safety innovations and build a collaborative infrastructure to sustain momentum over time. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Carcinogens Construction Industry Construction Materials Engineering Hydrocarbons Occupational Health Petroleum Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Asphalt Asphalt-industry Author Keywords: Partnerships Carcinogenicity Construction Construction-materials Construction-workers Engineering-controls Engineering Controls Exposure-levels Fumes Petroleum-products Research To Practice Risk-factors

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046335
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2015 Aug; 58(8):824-837
• Contact Point Address:
  Charlotte Chang, DrPH, MPH, Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California, 2223 Fulton Street, 4th Floor, Berkeley, California 94720-5120
• Email:
  cychang@berkeley.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fdc1b8fe2a78767a6ae7fcd9c3b0679f3bd02f303a29a16fdbef021629cb737c9ec9734d68e4cebf70994c36d050dc75f338981796f532316dc42d554915fcf3
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201431/cdc_201431_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 161.37 KB ]