Construction safety and health research, five years of progress and proposals for the future.

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  The first 5 years of the program for research and development on construction safety and health established by Congress in 1990 was reviewed, and proposals were made for the future of the program. New knowledge has been gained on safety and health risks to workers and how to prevent them. In addition the program has defined an agenda for building a new safety culture throughout the industry. This idea has been supported by unions, employer groups, scientific societies, and voluntary organizations. The fact that the industry has consisted mainly of very small contracting firms that operate in an environment characterized by constant change has been important. At this conference, 140 researchers from the construction industry, government, and academia agreed on a need to accelerate progress and select priorities. Workshops were conducted concerning construction surveillance techniques to determine whether current sources of surveillance data actually provide an adequate assessment of the health of construction workers and to identify new sources of data and follow up techniques; economics of the industry and how they are affected by various interventions, demographics, barriers to implementing safety and health practices, and prioritization of efforts; exposure assessment, specifically using the task based approach; interventions; and musculoskeletal disorders. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Construction Industry Epidemiology Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Cooperative-Agreement; Musculoskeletal-system-disorders; Accident-prevention; Construction-workers; Safety-research; Occupational-safety-programs; Construction-industry; Safety-practices; Risk-factors; Epidemiology
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-46
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00235899
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1996; :1-46
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19940930
• Source Full Name:
  Report of the CPWR-NIOSH Program Planning Conference Joint Strategies to Advance Research in the Construction Industry, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1-2 April, 1996, the Center to Protect Workers Rights, Washington, D.C.
• End Date:
  20000331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/232597/cdc_232597_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]