Reducing Highway Construction Fatalities Through Improved Adoption of Safety Technologies

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• Personal Author:
  Eseonu C ; Gambatese, John ; Nnaji, Chukwuma
• Description:
  Highway construction is commonly associated with high rates of worker accidents. These high rates are often linked to the requirement of work in close proximity to live traffic and heavy duty construction equipment. Existing transportation research shows that technological solutions, like Work Zone Intrusion Alert Technology (WZAIT) improve work zone safety. However, few organizations in the highway construction industry have adopted these safety technologies. Industry actors report concerns about technology effectiveness, cost implications adopting new technology, and lack of technology feature-synergy. Few studies have explored strategies for improving work zone safety technology adoption, implementation, and eventual diffusion across the highway construction industry. To fill this gap in research and practice, this study attempts to develop tools and identify effective processes that could be used to improve the adoption of work zone safety technologies using work zone intrusion technology as a case study. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Construction Industry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Construction Industry Construction Workers Hazard Communication Highway Work Zones Safety Equipment Safety Measures
• Publisher:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-50
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057590
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, 2018 Mar; :1-50
• 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:
  Reducing highway construction fatalities through improved adoption of safety technologies
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4e4502c8b095875edcac684b8390dd7983ac76a368a3dedb1bf460fce2126a3ab0220ac39fd16c02a884f9e703e12361f9af4c9e0563bd8dc3f99ee755dfcc4f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214872/cdc_214872_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 918.56 KB ]