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Injuries Are Not Accidents: Construction Will Be Safe When It's Designed to Be Safe (Case Study 4 from Lessons Learned - Solutions for Workplace Safety and Health

Case study on hazardous conditions and actions that could be taken to prevent these conditions, including implementing an occupational safety and heal...

CPWR Technical Report: Manganese Exposure and Cardiovascular Responses among Welders

This study investigated the cardiac effects of Manganese exposures among welders, specifically boilermaker construction workers, using a repeated meas...

Worker Fatigue: Managing concerns in rapid renewal highway construction projects

Study of the impact of rapid renewal projects and nighttime work on workers and injury rates and steps to identify and manage fatigue and reduce injur...

Polyurethane Table

Excel spreadsheet of information on polyurethane products (isocyanates) materials compiled in support of the paper Risk of Isocyanate Exposure in the...

CDC and Nanotechnology

Portion of NIOSH's website coverning Nanotechnology, which is the manipulation of matter on a near-atomic scale to produce new structures, materials a...

Fatal and Nonfatal Injuries among Hispanic Construction Workers 1992-2008

This data brief provides updated data on fatal and nonfatal injuries among Hispanic construction workers, focusing on changes in recent years....

Green Jobs: Safety & Health Outlook for Workers - A view from under the Hard Hat

This presentation provides information on green construction and the potential impact on worker health and safety....

White Paper: Reaching Higher - Recommendations for the Safe Use of Mast Climbing Work Platforms

Paper presenting the recommendations on the safe use of mast climbing work platforms, also known as mast climbers, based on input from a work group of...

CPWR Technical Report: Risk of Isocyanate Exposure in the Construction Industry

This study focuses on identifying and collecting data on polyurethane products (isocyanates) that are commonly used and most likely to present skin ex...

Green & Healthy Jobs

This report collects the best available information to assess the coming tide of green construction jobs with the goal of looking for opportunities to...