Fifteen Years of American Construction Occupational Safety and Health Research

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• Personal Author:
  Choi S ; Sinyai C
• Description:
  The researchers reviewed construction occupational safety and health research published in high-impact, peer-reviewed academic journals between 2002 and 2016 to assess whether research in the field is efficiently targeted to produce evidence-based interventions addressing the industry's most serious occupational hazards. Unlike most previous surveys of the field, this interdisciplinary literature search captured research published in the construction management and engineering literature as well as that in public health and medicine journals. The researchers found 741 articles by US-based lead authors, with falls the most-studied safety hazard (89 articles) and airborne silica exposure the most-studied health hazard (51), both among the deadliest current hazards in construction occupational safety and health, but much asbestos research was sponsored by companies involved in litigation, generating few findings useful for protecting today's workers. The review described important trends in the literature, including increased attention to noise and hearing loss, a growing number of intervention studies, and greater concern for populations at disproportionate risk (e.g., small/residential, Latino/immigrant, younger/older workers, & women working in construction). The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) directly or indirectly funded a majority of the published research. Policymakers should understand that most occupational safety and health research depends on NIOSH funding. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accidental Falls Accidents Asbestos Construction Industry Healthcare Disparities Hearing Loss Hearing Loss, Noise-Induced Inorganic Chemicals Occupational Health Safety Silicon Dioxide

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• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Falls Construction Construction Industry Construction Workers Falls Health Disparities Hearing Loss Intervention NIOSH Research Safety Research Silica

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• ISSN:
  0925-7535
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Virginia ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  131
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062977
• Citation:
  Saf Sci 2020 Nov; 131:104915
• Contact Point Address:
  Clayton Sinyai, 7145 Roosevelt Ave, Falls Church, VA 22042, United States
• Email:
  clayton@sinyai.org
• CAS Registry Number:
  Asbestos (CAS RN 1332-21-4) ; Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2021
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  CPWR - The Center for Construction Research and Training, Silver Spring, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20090901
• Source Full Name:
  Safety Science
• End Date:
  20240831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0d2fdbacdc87346d04db0ab5291dd2a75a3169f7b5578d5cfc51efc55329805ad71466eaafe84fcc20b21e1b9d35d5b814a5c2f6bee7fc67f5874c92375ac28b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226123/cdc_226123_DS1.pdf
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