This CPWR Hazard Alert on Ladder Safety describes safety tips for using ladders, statistics on injuries, steps that you can take to protect yourself a...
A newspaper article talking about the fact that there are often violations in construction companies on reporting of injuries and deaths, skewing the...
A newspaper article on safety describes the New York surcharge on workers’ comp premiums that is used for training. There is evidence that the train...
Describes a workers’ comp law in Texas that is being challenged as being stacked against injured workers. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collec...
Describes the OSHA rules for use of a portable ladder to access an upper landing surface – the side rails must extend at least 3 feet above the land...
Report on the results of a study to determine whether four pieces of equipment for cutting moulding, cutting reinforcement rods, carrying carpet rolls...
Presents the results of a study in which a two-hour ergonomics and body conditioning training module was presented to construction workers on a large...
Report on the results of several projects in which a number of people participated in the design of mechanical devices to reduce labor....
A report on a study of cleaners that looked at the benefits of a physical activity program on their health, which was designed because physical limita...
Study indicating that technological advances combined with depressed real wages increased construction labor productivity through the 1980s and 1990s....