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Highlights 2014: Building on What We've Learned



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  • Corporate Authors:
    CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training
  • Description:
    This year, CPWR completed one five-year cooperative agreement with NIOSH and began a new one. The 2014-2019 award is CPWR's sixth five-year cooperative agreement with NIOSH, dating back to the start of the NIOSH construction safety and health research initiative in 1990. In 2015 we also begin a new five-year cooperative agreement with DOE to continue our construction worker medical screening program, BTMed, and we are poised to continue our hazardous waste, disaster response and minority worker training programs for another five years in what we hope is a new cooperative agreement with NIEHS. I commend and congratulate our staff and consortium partners, both new and returning, on the tremendous work collectively done over the years to advance construction worker safety and health. We now have 25 years of experience in managing large, national, multi-consortia research, training, and medical services programs. Over the years, CPWR has developed into a nationally and even internationally recognized leader in construction safety and health. In this year's Highlights you'll read about projects we are completing and many new ones now getting underway. Although "new," many build on the foundation of our previous work, as both our research and training programs continue to evolve as the body of knowledge continues to grow. You'll read about one of our new projects, "Enhancing Safety Climate through Leadership," which builds on the foundation of Linda Goldenhar's work over the past two years, including a 2013 Workshop on Safety Culture and Safety Climate in the Construction Industry and a 2014 Workbook so practitioners could assess and improve their own jobsite's safety climate. In our new project, we are developing a leadership safety and health training module, targeting primarily new front-line supervisors. You'll also read about Bruce Lippy's investigative work into nanotechnology and "nano-enabled products." These products are now being used on construction sites, yet traditional engineering controls have not been tested to determine if they can adequately protect workers from exposure to nanoparticles. Bruce has already begun collecting data on worker exposure to some of these products, such as roof tiles. He created a "nano" website and product inventory as part of the http://www.eLCOSH.org site. It holds a database of more than 400 "nano-enabled products" that may be in use in construction. As part of CPWR's r2p program you'll read about a masonry industry partnership now continuing on its own, and you'll see a new roofing industry partnership under Eileen Betit's guidance take shape. You'll also learn about a new r2p initiative that formalizes the connection between our researchers and our construction safety and health training community. We call it Trainers and Researchers United Network (TRU-Net). We continue our data tracking efforts under the direction of Sue Dong, as they produce valuable statistics for both researchers and the entire construction industry. We will publish the Data Center's popular "The Construction Chart Book: The U.S. Construction Industry and Its Workers," but in a different form. Rather than publish one book every five years, we will continuously update the book housed on CPWR's website, http://www.cpwr.com, as new data become available. In training, CPWR's programs continue to grow, as we update and develop new curricula to meet construction industry demands. Our environmental, disaster response, minority worker, and OSHA training programs are going strong. In this report you will also read about the support we provide to our network of trainers through annual enhancements and other trainer opportunities. Our medical screening program, BTMed, continues to provide medical exams to workers formerly employed at DOE nuclear weapons sites, while expanding the provision of low-dose CT scans for these construction workers. Dr. Eula Bingham, University of Cincinnati, has decided that 2015 will be her last year of work with us on the BTMed program. Eula has been with us since the beginning of not only the BTMed program, but since the inception of CPWR's construction safety and health program. She has been a co-investigator, advisor, colleague and friend. She has been a true pioneer and advocate for worker safety and health. Formerly the head of OSHA in the Carter administration, much of the training we do today builds on the foundation of worker safety and health training Eula established when she created what is now known as OSHA's Susan Harwood training grants program. I'm very pleased to report that Eula will continue to work with us as a member of CPWR's Technical Advisory Board, and I'm honored to pay tribute to the incredible contribution Dr. Bingham has made to America's workers in the following page of this report. We look forward to a good year and hope you'll follow our work during 2015. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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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:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    44 pdf pages
  • Contributor:
    McGarvey, Sean ; Stafford, Erich ; Bingham, Eula
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20047514
  • Citation:
    Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2015 Feb; :1-40
  • 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:
    2015
  • 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 2014: CPWR - building on what we've learned
  • End Date:
    20240831
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