Highlights 2007

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  A construction site is one of the most hazardous places you could find yourself. An average of four construction workers a day suffer a fatal accident on the job and tens of thousands more are injured each year. Thousands more will experience debilitating illnesses later in life from work-related hazardous materials that appeared harmless. Too many of these individuals will never recover and eventually will succumb to a work-related disease. Fortunately, construction workers have a trusted resource in helping them stay safe and healthy on the job - the Center to Protect Workers' Rights. Since 1990, CPWR has followed its mission to identify the causes of construction safety and health hazards, investigate possible solutions to the problems plaguing workers, then develop and evaluate training to educate workers on safety and health issues. It is my great pleasure to introduce this overview of the many projects CPWR is managing in our three-pronged efforts of research, training and service. With a great diversity of research projects, the Highlights 2007 gives a snapshot of each research project in its five-year cycle. Researchers can be involved in any phase of activity, from collecting and analyzing data, to testing interventions or announcing preliminary findings and disseminating results. Much of the research work you will read about is made possible because of our world-class collaborators in academia, government and industry. They form our research partners and serve as thoughtful advocates for safe working conditions on construction sites. The Highlights 2007 also profiles our training programs, both specialty programs such as disaster relief and environmental training to general safety training. The staff of CPWR's training department has developed a network of trainers: 80 Master Trainers this year trained 3,200 Outreach Instructors. It is these instructors who will bring critical safety and health information to the hundreds of thousands of construction workers in the building trades. Any one of these dedicated men and women could very well be responsible for saving a life, although they may never know it - or get the credit. Let me thank them now for giving workers the tools to stay safe on the job. Even the best research remains nothing more than pure knowledge if it is not communicated to the people who can put it to use. CPWR develops materials for workers, contractors and industry stakeholders to use, such as educational DVDs, our information-rich websites and our popular Hazard Alert cards. In recent years, our outreach to construction workers who worked at Department of Energy nuclear sites has helped identify people at risk for job-related (and unusual) diseases. For those who have been diagnosed with diseases such as radiation-induced cancer caused by working near radioactive material, we have helped these workers access medical services and the federal compensation system devised to treat these illnesses. We seek justice for these workers long after their service to this nation has ended. We look toward 2007 with a continued sense of mission as we pursue efforts to identify interventions to reduce construction safety and health hazards, provide training to workers, and disseminate our findings to the people who need it most - the men and women in the building and construction trades. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Communications Media Construction Industry Education Ergonomics Hazardous Substances Hearing Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Radiation Injuries Safety Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Communication-systems Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-workers Disease-prevention Health-hazards Hearing-conservation Injury-prevention Job-analysis Medical-screening Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Nuclear-hazards Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs Radiation-injury Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-research Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• 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:
  28 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Sullivan, Edward C. ; Anton, Daniel C. ; Beck, Vicki ; Bingham, Eula ; Chen, Peter Y. ; Daniell, William E. ; Dement, John M. ; Evanoff, Bradley A. ; Goldberg, Mark ; Herrick, Robert F. ; Lipscomb, Hester J. ; MacCollum, David V. ; Nelson, Jeffrey ; Nissen, Bruce ; Ochsner, Michele ; Perry, Melissa ; Rempel, David ; Beavers, James ; Sokas, Rosemary K. ; Toole, Michael ; Weinstein, Marc ; Woskie, Susan
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047503
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2007 Jan; :1-23
• Contact Point Address:
  Edward C. Sullivan, President, CPWR, CPWR-The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 8484 Georgia Ave., Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Highlights 2007: CPWR
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:27ce506d9a2c0e9fe92383da5250888f9071e24e475b4fb0e4768399e0690c6e82c06c61ad2408b65d64c45a0a117e6681ca15657531ccbc2bfa854784a92408
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213192/cdc_213192_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.28 MB ]