Overhead Drilling: Development and Evaluation of a New Device

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• Personal Author:
  Barr A ; Gibbons B ; Janowitz I ; Rempel D ; Star D
• Description:
  In the construction industry, innovations are created in the field to address a specific, temporary challenge for which there is no available tool or process. Often, these innovations spring from the grassroots efforts of tradespeople who know the work and understand the need for the intervention. The interventions usually are crude devices-fabricated from scrap material-that provide a temporary working solution. Unfortunately, many of these interventions are short-lived and abandoned at the end of a project. This article describes the effort of a research team to capture alternative ideas for overhead drilling, fabricate functional devices based on those ideas and improve the designs based on two rounds of field testing. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Fatigue Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Construction Equipment Construction Workers Drilling Equipment Design Hand Tools MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Upper Extremities
• ISSN:
  0099-0027
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  30-35
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20058730
• Citation:
  Prof Saf 2007 Nov; 52(11):30-35
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040801
• Source Full Name:
  Professional Safety
• End Date:
  20090630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b7ae1c0a20da5e1f4774090444c844054521fdf1afa95327afc4f6bdfecfe3a0c4517c3d94b4bcfa26541b8c224a63c77502a99b402325d211903b3a851ab9de
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/223131/cdc_223131_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB ]