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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.
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.
CPWR researchers looked at trends in fatal falls among construction workers from 1992 through 2008, focusing on construction workers aged 55 and older.
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.
This study addresses concerns about the growing number of Hispanics in the construction workforce and the risk of fatal falls in this group.
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.
This Data Bulletin examines fatal and nonfatal falls in construction by major and detailed subsector and primary source. It also looks at fatal falls from 2011 to 2022 by fall height, time of day, state, and other factors.
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.