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Using data from CPWR and other trusted sources, these infographics raise awareness of occupational hazards and solutions. They can be downloaded as PDFs or JPEGs for use in social media, presentations, print materials, and on job sites.
Prevention through Design (PtD) aims to prevent work-related illnesses, injuries, and fatalities by recognizing and eliminating hazards early in the design phase. This page collects CPWR-supported resources to facilitate PtD implementation.
This hazard alert provides important details on preventing hazards while using a ladder. Hazard Alerts offer workers key information about a hazard and how to protect themselves from it in a pocket card or PDF.
The research team created an assessment tool based on West Virginia’s Fall Safe tool that contained checklists of yes/no questions covering ladder condition, setup, moving on a ladder, and completing tasks from a ladder.
This video – developed by the Roofing r2p Partnership (National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) and the United Union of Roofers and Waterproofers & Allied Workers, and CPWR) – focuses on ladder safety during roofing work.
This research team’s ultimate goal is to develop targeted ladder fall prevention strategies.
This Key Finding summarizes a case study of the National Safety Stand-Down to Prevent Falls, a nationwide occupational safety and health effort.
This study exploited a unique research opportunity to perform multiple repeat assessments of fall prevention compliance on one general contractor’s site during the bulk of construction activity.
This Key Finding summarizes a CPWR Small Study on how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) affect workers’ health and safety, especially when at height. UAVs can distract workers, making falls more likely, and affect their psychological state....
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.