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Healthy Aging for a Sustainable Workforce

A report identifying important issues that revolve around construction’s aging workforce and its needs on the job and off....

Workplace Safety and Health: OSHA Can Strengthen Enforcement through Improved Program Management

This 2002 GAO report recommended further steps OSHA could take to target inspections on the nation’s most hazardous worksites....

A Performance Goal for Construction Safety and Health

CPWR researcher proposes a national goal of fewer than three deaths per 200 million man-hours of work in the US construction industry. The goal is bas...

The Economics of Health and Safety in Construction

A paper summarizing the economic forces work in the construction industry, how they impact health and safety, and proposals for creating economic cond...

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...

Prevention through Design (PtD): An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography

This document is part of a series of annotated, interdisciplinary bibliographies of academic research on major topics in construction occupational saf...

Older Workers: An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography

This document is part of a series of annotated, interdisciplinary bibliographies of academic research on major topics in construction occupational saf...

Safety & Health Information: Improving Online Access & Delivery

This article, published in Professional Safety magazine in May 2014, reviews the systematic methods employed by a multi-disciplinary team at CPWR to u...

ILO Guidelines for Health and Safety Management Systems 2001

These 2001 International Labor Organization Guidelines on effective management systems for worker protection were produced with broad stakeholder invo...

Ergonomics in Construction: Where Does it Hurt?

Interviews conducted with workers using a structured questionnaire and a graphic inquiry determined that the hands, feet and lower back are mostly use...