Fall prevention on residential construction sites

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• Personal Author:
  Evanoff B ; Kaskutas V ; Miller H
• Description:
  Falls from height remain the most common cause of workplace fatalities among residential construction workers. The research team identified 43 commercially available fall protection technologies appropriate for residential building; 45 construction professionals identified their preferred devices. Two of these devices were pilot tested with residential builders to explore feasibility of device use while framing homes. Workers believed that both devices could prevent falls, but reduced productivity was a concern for one of the devices tested. The researchers concluded that there are feasible fall protection technologies for residential construction and most contractors are willing to explore these options. They recommended continued collaboration between researchers, device manufacturers, the building components industry, and residential contractors to generate defi nitive evidence about the safety of personal fall arrest systems in various residential applications. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Education Health Promotion Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Equipment-design Fall-protection Health-programs Height-factors Industrial-design Industrial-engineering Injury-prevention Personal-protective-equipment Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-engineering Safety-equipment Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Standards Surveillance-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health 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 ; Missouri ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046781
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2014 Jan; :1
• Email:
  kaskutasv@wustl.edu
• 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:
  Fall prevention on residential construction sites
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b47cfe25f6754ec3529e8564c0e93ec67a545dddcfa804c1d6399f0eb754d85ef0012c84f0fbbad248d1e3102dc7d062d3d008b372805deb6d01ba31550f2722
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/202100/cdc_202100_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 42.11 KB ]