The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards (NPG) is intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classe...
A comprehensive study of fatalities and injuries in highway workzones and a set of measures that can be taken to reduce them....
This 2002 GAO report recommended further steps OSHA could take to target inspections on the nation’s most hazardous worksites....
OSHA magazine article profiling death of a carpenter who fell into an unguarded pit, citing regulations that applied to the situation....
A U. Mass., Lowell professor discusses overhead drilling in the ‘big dig’ and its attendant ergonomic and airborne silica inhalation hazards....
Summary of results from a 2002 NIOSH study showing that employees in construction, agriculture and certain manufacturing sectors are at elevated risk...
Abstract of a 2002 study showing that employees in construction, agriculture and certain manufacturing sectors are at elevated risk of COPD....
Abstract of a study of multiemployer health plan participants demonstrates effectiveness of smoking cessation plans within this population....
Washington State Department of Labor narrative of a fatal accident when a painter in an aerial lift touched power lines, was electrocuted, and fell....
A study of noise exposure in the construction industry recommends greater use of hearing protection and control of the sources of noise on the work si...