Construction working conditions in Texas: survey instrument development and pilot project

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• Corporate Authors:
  Workers Defense Project
• Description:
  Workers Defense Project conducted a pilot study of the construction industry in Austin in order to develop a survey instrument for a statewide study of working conditions in Texas. The pilot study, begun in March 2012 and completed in August 2012, delivered findings that were used to improve the statewide study survey instrument, determine interview questions and fine-tune overall study methodology. Using this new survey instrument, the researchers conducted their statewide survey and published the results in January 2013 in the document, Build a Better Texas: Construction Working Conditions in the Lone Star State. Researchers were able to use the same dataset to generate a second report, Build a Better Nation: A Case for Comprehensive Immigration Reform, which was released February of 2013. The later report examines working conditions through the lens of immigration, as 50% of the Texas construction workforce was found to be undocumented. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace
• Keywords:
  Analytical-instruments Analytical-processes Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Data-processing Health-standards Health-surveys Questionnaires Racial-factors Regulations Safety-research Standards Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health Workers 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:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 6 ; Texas
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046760
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2013 Dec; :1
• Email:
  info@workersdefense.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• 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:
  Construction working conditions in Texas: survey instrument development and pilot project
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:124858e59e4a45aebd56f60de257bcc96c3e10ad6759ff9d5ade0129b229629dac96058c20d08260a24ecdf3620b4e5e8dcb70c1bd8697d6c627792f3aa82a03
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202090/cdc_202090_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 47.64 KB ]