Highlights 2015: A Mission to Serve

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  I am pleased to report that 2015 marked another year of progress toward fulfilling our mission and reinforcing our position as a world leader in safety and health research, training, and service for the construction industry. As you will read in this report, although we are in the early stages of new cooperative agreements with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Department of Energy, efforts to further integrate the work of our three core programs - research, training, and service - enhanced our ability to positively influence the industry's safety culture, identify and fill training gaps, find solutions for existing and emerging hazards, advance use of solutions on jobsites through new partnerships and translational materials, and serve contractors and North America's Building Trades Unions. The reach of our training programs continued to grow, ensuring that industry trainers and construction workers nationwide have access to the latest in safety and health training. This year alone, we provided training directly or through our affiliated unions to more than 1,400 trainers and 75,000 workers. The launch of a new program, TRU-Net, was met with enthusiasm and marked an important step in creating an ongoing dialogue between our researchers and trainers to identify research needs and help get findings used in the field, as we continue to serve as the leader in research to practice (r2p) in our capacity as the NIOSH-funded National Construction Center. The success of our DOE-supported medical screening program can best be measured by the high satisfaction rate reported by participants and those who benefited from our staff's advocacy on their behalf. Providing at-risk workers with access to CT scans to ensure early detection of cancer is one of our BTMed program's latest achievements. The accomplishments described in this report are the direct result of countless hours of work by our dedicated staff, a consortium of researchers at the top of their fields, highly skilled trainers, and committed service providers and industry partners. Together, we are well positioned to make further advancements in the year ahead. We remain committed to developing and promoting the use of research-based safety interventions, finding new and innovative ways to share this vital information with contractors and workers, and working with you to make the construction industry a safer industry. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Communications Media Construction Industry Education Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Nuclear Power Plants Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Radiation Safety Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Communication-systems Construction Construction-industry Construction-workers Employee-exposure Hazards Injury-prevention Job-analysis Medical-research Medical-screening Medical-services Nuclear-energy Occupational-hazards Occupational-safety-programs Radiation-exposure Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-practices Safety-research Surveillance-programs Training 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 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:
  28 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  McGarvey, Sean ; Stafford, Erich
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20047490
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2016 Jan; :1-25
• Contact Point Address:
  Pete Stafford, Executive Director, CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Ave., Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Email:
  pstafford@cpwr.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• 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:
  Highlights 2015: CPWR - a mission to serve
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213193/cdc_213193_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.42 MB ]