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Workplace Solutions: Reducing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders among Rodbusters

NIOSH recommendations for reducing low back and hand disorders among reinforcing ironworkers when tying together reinforcing steel bars on freeway bri...

Personal Protective Equipment for Women - Addressing the Need

Report and directory on the availability and use of personal protective equipment for women. The study was done by the Industrial Accident Prevention...

ISEA Listing of Female Personal Protective Equipment Manufacturers

A list prepared by the International Safety Equipment Association that identifies sources and contacts for personal protective equipment designed for...

Nanotechnology and Construction

This report sets out to describe, for the construction professional, where nanotechnology is already being investigated or even used in the industry,...

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...

Good (Yet Potentially Hazardous) Things in Very Small Packages

Articles by the Laborers’ International on the presence of nanomaterials in some building products and the potential hazards....

CPSC, DeVilbiss Recalls Air Compressors Due to Fire Hazard

Voluntary recall of DeVilbiss Ari compressors sold under the Craftsman, Delta Shopmaster, DeVilbiss, Husky and Porter-Cable brand names. Specific mod...

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...

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....