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The Workplace and Health

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, in collaboration with National Public Radio and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, conducted a poll of wor...

Sustainability in the Workplace: A New Approach for Advancing Worker Safety and Health

This is an OSHA concept paper exploring opportunities to integrate safety and health considerations into the growing movement for businesses to addres...

NIOSH Aerial Lift Test Videos

NIOSH has completed several physical tests in a laboratory setting to evaluate the responses of an aerial lift under different ANSI and OSHA, as well...

NIOSH Guardrail System – From Research to Field

Researchers from the Division of Safety Research of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) designed, developed, and patent...

Building a Safety Culture: Improving Safety and Health Management in the Construction Industry

This Dodge SmartMarket report updates survey findings of safety culture in the construction industry....

Safety Training: Tell Me a Story

This article discusses the social and cultural power of stories, and how they have been used to develop training for skilled blue-collar workers. It i...

NIOSH Workplace Solutions: Reducing Hazardous Dust Exposure When Dowel Drilling in Concrete

Construction workers may be exposed to hazardous dust containing respirable crystalline silica when using dowel drilling machines to drill horizontal...

Elevating EHS Leading Indicators: From Defining to Designing

This white paper by the National Safety Council's Campbell Institute is the latest of several documents focused on leading indicators. Previous report...

Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

This report by the NIEHS Worker Training Program identifies how climate change will affect the health of workers and how we should prepare for these i...

Personal Protective Equipment for Female Construction Workers: Does it Fit?

A short report developed by researchers at the Mt. Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health based on focus groups with female construction worke...