Highlights 2017: Advancing Construction Safety & Health

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• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Description:
  CPWR Highlights: Advancing Construction Safety & Health is just that - a record of achievement in research, training, and service promoting the safety and health of our nation's construction workers. CPWR works with the North America's BuildingTrades Unions (NABTU) apprenticeship and training programs to deliver OSHA outreach training to construction workers across the nation. But we are developing new training materials, as well. Among the year's most important achievements: CPWR launched an Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) Awareness program for workers renovating hospitals and nursing homes. Several union training programs are using the curriculum to prepare workers to do this work while protecting patients from infection - and staying safe themselves. Research and training staff also teamed up to develop noise hazard awareness training materials, informed by a large-scale survey of trainers and union members. For decades, thousands of our nation's construction workers served our country by working on building projects located on nuclear weapons sites operated by DOE. These workers helped us win the Cold War - often at the expense of their own health. In this report you'll read how we have provided more than 36,000 free medical screening exams to these at-risk former workers, helping many to obtain timely care for serious illnesses. CPWR is now in the third year of our five-year research program. The preliminary research is complete, and many of our researchers are leveraging the results of their studies to develop and test practical applications to make tomorrow's worksites safer than those of today. One team has completed their work assessing construction safety and health training offered through Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs across the United States. They have produced a guide for CTE administrators and instructors, Your Construction Safety Program: Safe Students, Safe Workers, that will help these programs prepare their students for safety before they even set foot on the jobsite. In the research section of the report, you will learn about other ways we are advancing construction safety and health. 1. More than 15,000 users a month are turning to Work Safely with Silica, our one-stop web resource for information on the hazard and an online tool contractors can use to generate the written control plan required by the silica standard. 2. Safety trainers have used CPWR's Foundations for Safety Leadership (FSL) elective module in more than 400 OSHA 30-hour Construction Industry Outreach Training classes, reaching more than 4,000 construction foremen and lead workers with lessons on how to be safety leaders on the job. 3. Early research findings are proving that safety and productivity can go hand-in-hand: replacing dull bits with sharp ones when drilling concrete has been found to speed up the work while reducing the drill operator's exposure to harmful noise, dust, force, and vibration. Working in close coordination with NIOSH, our current research program is advancing construction safety and health by developing and evaluating new interventions, and actively promoting their use with target audiences - those who could benefit the most - using novel and diverse dissemination methods. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Environmental Exposure Environmental Pollution Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction Industry Construction Workers Environmental Hazards Hazard Communication Hazard Recognition Information Dissemination Nanoparticles Nuclear Hazards Occupational Safety And Health Partnership R2p Research To Practice Initiative Safety Climate Safety Research Screening Programs Training Work Environment Worker Health Worker Safety

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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
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056130
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2018 Jan; :1-25
• Contact Point Address:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 8484 Georgia Avenue, Suite 1000, Silver Spring, MD 20910
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• 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:
  CPWR highlights 2017: advancing construction safety & health
• 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/213194/cdc_213194_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.74 MB ]