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Annotated Bibliographies

Topics in Construction Safety and Health is a series of annotated, interdisciplinary bibliographies of academic research on major topics in construction occupational safety and health, from Asbestos to Training.

Preventing falls in residential construction: Effectiveness of engagin...

Everly Macario, Sandra Wills Hannon, Robin Baker, Christine M. Branche, Christina Trahan. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, August 2015.

NIOSH, OSHA and CPWR jointly launched a social marketing campaign and recruited 70 partners to promote the Safety Pays, Falls Cost campaign among targeted audiences, aiming to reduce falls in small residential construction.

Fatal Falls among Older Construction Workers

Xiuwen Sue Dong, Xuanwen Wang and Christina Daw. Human Factors, June 2012.

CPWR researchers looked at trends in fatal falls among construction workers from 1992 through 2008, focusing on construction workers aged 55 and older.
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Topics in Construction Safety and Health – Falls: An Interdiscip...

CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training

CPWR offers a series of annotated, interdisciplinary bibliographies of research on key topics in construction safety and health. This bibliography collects almost 120 studies on topics such as fall causes and prevention methods.

Fatal Falls among Hispanic Construction Workers

Xiuwen Sue Dong, Alissa Fujimoto, Knut Ringen, Yurong Men. Accident Analysis and Prevention, September 2009.

This study addresses concerns about the growing number of Hispanics in the construction workforce and the risk of fatal falls in this group.
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Development of Design Interventions for Preventing Falls from Fixed La...

April 2008

Thomas J. Armstrong, Ph.D., James Ashton-Miller, Ph.D., Charles Woolley, Janet Kemp, Justin Young, Kim Hogene. April 2008

In this report, and poster session, Dr. Tom Armstrong and researchers at the University of Michigan Center for Ergonomics share their study results of hand and foot forces while climbing on fixed ladders. 

Underlying Causes of Falls from Heights

August 2022

CPWR Report. Grace Barlet, Rosa Greenberg, and Jessica Bunting.

To better understand why serious falls from heights continue to occur with such frequency despite being preventable, CPWR surveyed nearly 500 people who experienced, witnessed, or investigated a workplace fall incident.