Doing it old school: peer-led occupational safety training in the U.S. construction industry

Details

• Personal Author:
  Sinyai C ; Stafford P ; Trahan C
• Description:
  Many labor organizations that sponsor occupational health and safety training champion "peer training," preferring instructors drawn from the shop floor over academically credentialed experts. But peer training is hardly new: in the skilled trades, master craftsmen have instructed apprentices since the Middle Ages. Building on the apprenticeship model, the U.S.-based construction unions have created a network of more than 4,000 peer trainers. These certified trainers enjoy a special credibility with workers not available to the expert with specialized educational credentials but no experience working at the trade. Training as many as 100,000 men and women in the each year, the trades have established an expectation throughout the commercial construction industry that workers, not just supervisors, receive standard "OSHA-10" hazard recognition training. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Education Men Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Women Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Humans Industrial-hygienists Models Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Professional-workers Safety-education Safety-personnel Teaching Technical-personnel Training Work-environment Work-organization Worker-health

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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
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046768
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Apr; :1
• Email:
  csinyai@cpwr.com
• 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:
  Doing it old school: Peer-led occupational safety training in the U.S. construction industry
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4b136326a2db1813ab136401f707885688d1bc4e2322c90e1b09efcf2a6a1a9714f703a56fe0d55e40c8c680a20e8eb9cbbb0ede40cb679a8ff6bdf8de6e8c2c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202097/cdc_202097_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 51.41 KB ]