Creating the climate for making ergonomic changes in construction

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• Personal Author:
  Boatman L ; Chaplan D ; Teran S ; Welch L
• Description:
  Researchers interviewed 50 key informants representing construction contractors and labor union representatives, and held focus groups with 48 construction trade workers to identify perceptions and attitudes about work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) in the building industry. The participants, drawn from a wide variety of trades, identified many of the major barriers and challenges to introducing ergonomic safety and health interventions in the industry as well as some possible paths forward. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Construction Industry Ergonomics Mass Behavior Mental Health Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Attitude Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-design Group-dynamics Industrial-design Industrial-education Injury-prevention Mental-processes Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• 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
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046576
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Aug; :1
• Email:
  lboatman@sbctc.org
• 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:
  Creating the climate for making ergonomic changes in construction
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0371011be521bbfd2c3afbc89ed93cd9a1106b3c3e0634923f57aa6d7b0a8251c130da682e88200a7e10959768ce6d99d3dc51d3a224e53355d42cfd88a504b4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201588/cdc_201588_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 87.13 KB ]