Analysis of Health and Safety Hazard Information for Dissemination to Small Independent Construction Companies

Details

• Personal Author:
  Flick JP ; Radomsky MC ; Ramani, R. V. ; Russell GL ; Yonish DN
• Description:
  The Pennsylvania State University conducted a pilot study which was designed to: describe how small (ten or less employees), independent construction companies currently receive and utilize health and safety information; outline and recommend ways to improve the process of disseminating this information to personnel in a timely manner; and prepare a final report which provides, with sufficient data and analysis, a consensus determination of the mechanisms utilized to provide health and safety information (HSI) and recommendations for future investigations on mechanisms or methodologies which may be more effective in the dissemination of HSI to small contractors and their employees. A number of approaches were used to study small contractor establishments with regard to the mechanisms utilized by them to receive, provide and distribute health and safety information to their employees. The approaches included review of publicly available literature, interviews of 20 small construction firms, interviews of two construction trade associations, three insurance carriers, and one building material supplier, and transfer of our general knowledge of small mining companies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-industry Hazards Industrial-hygiene Small-business
• Series:
  Mining Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Purchase Order Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-135
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000637
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-159626
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1997 Dec; :1-135
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  The Pennsylvania State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Department of Mineral Engineering
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:958e2557f9b64b1be7df3fc9867c527872c4b3f03369d91cbf927b3e396e6dc0d20e8328847c344999bfdbc9bab161b363f8a5c8590670a8ea5e08aa078f24c8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/220382/cdc_220382_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.44 MB ]