Fall protection systems anchored to wood-framed structures prove effective in practice - fall protection: structural efficacy of residential structures for fall protection systems

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• Personal Author:
  Bethancourt J ; Cannon M
• Description:
  Some have argued that compliance with OSHA fall protection standards in wood-framed, residential construction projects is impossible or prohibitively expensive. They contend that existing wood-framed structures lack anchorage points sufficient to satisfy the standard or to protect workers in the event of a fall. To evaluate these claims, researchers examined 14 fall incidents or near misses documented by a framing contractor who has employed fall protection devices in residential and light commercial construction since 2007. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Wood Workplace
• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Fall-protection Injury-prevention Regulations Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Standards Structural-analysis Wood-products Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; District of Columbia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046387
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 May; :1
• Email:
  jbethancourt@actasafety.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Fall protection systems anchored to wood-framed structures prove effective in practice - fall protection: structural efficacy of residential structures for fall protection systems
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0e1975d0fad9077fd42ffdf63f40ab79c9f460bd63c86801c00376eb9034068ec1d579f5557e4291e4c5446b0394d2bd95a046f4dba75dc6bc4229ae41410f74
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201460/cdc_201460_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 47.32 KB ]