Your Construction Safety Program: Safe Students, Safe Workers: A Guide for Administrators & Instructors in Post-Secondary Career Technical Education (CTE) Construction Programs

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• Personal Author:
  Bush D ; Chang C ; Myers D ; Rauscher, Kimberly ; Scruggs K
• Description:
  Construction is booming, and industry demand for new, skilled workers is growing. Each year, 2-year post-secondary Career Technical Education (CTE) programs train roughly 78,000 students to enter this dynamic field. Yet construction work is also dangerous, with two to three construction workers dying every day on the job in the United States. Young workers and workers new to the job are at even greater risk for injury. In 2015, more than 8,300 workers between the ages of 16-24 were seriously hurt on the job. Workers in construction need to be prepared to work safely in changing, hazard-filled environments, armed with the knowledge and skills to protect themselves and their co-workers. Safety skills are critical employability skills, and well-trained workers help save their employers the high human and financial costs of injuries. One of the few places new construction workers gain these critical employment skills are in construction programs at community colleges and technical schools. Providing effective safety and health education to students in these programs is essential to ensuring future workers return safe and healthy to their families. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Education Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Construction Industry Construction Workers Occupational Safety And Health Training Young Workers
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Handbooks
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-101
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057479
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2017 Dec; :1-101
• 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:
  Your construction safety program: safe students, safe workers: a guide for administrators & instructors in post-secondary Career Technical Education (CTE) construction programs
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:13241f5a951dd719162591dd79736147b16ab7469d2d7a215004ca69dbc20b3bcbb59503a7cb2a5b4d7e5f1b600d94ca81135426fcedefdd54ca0f815c0fbe92
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214821/cdc_214821_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.43 MB ]