Workplace Solutions: Preventing Worker Injuries and Deaths from Backing Construction Vehicles and Equipment at Roadway Construction Worksites

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Personal Author:
  Romano, Nancy T. ; Casini, Virgil J.
• Description:
  Workers on roadway construction worksites are exposed to possible injury and death from moving construction vehicles and equipment [NIOSH 2001]. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends that specific procedures and controls be in place at roadway construction worksites to help prevent injuries and deaths from backing construction vehicles and equipment. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Construction Industry Environmental Monitoring Eye Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Sense Organs Transportation Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Construction; Construction-equipment; Construction-industry; Construction-workers; Road-construction; Road-surfacing; Injury-prevention; Motor-vehicles; Drivers; Environmental-control; Work-environment; Traumatic-injuries; Mortality-data; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Work-practices; Field-of-vision; Equipment-design; Supervisory-personnel; Signal-devices; Warning-devices; Equipment-operators; Surveillance
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2014-125, 2014 Jun; :1-4
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Subseries:
  Workplace Solutions
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2014125
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Periodical
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20044436
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-106317
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6a9e266836fa2bebce2e75926400a92d465fc6507e3b3441304e4a7ec83abbd799c7a8924347dd0252747e6c401d36e177416b6b336452ce02124618ce698e20
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23413/cdc_23413_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 429.56 KB ]