The European Trade Union Institute has an article up featuring the Campaign To Prevent Falls in Construction. From the article: “Our industry has lost far too many people to fatal falls,” said CPWR Executive Director Pete Stafford. “Based on national data we’ve collected over the years, we know that no matter how many construction fatalities there are in any given year, consistently one-third of the total are the result of fatal falls. Losing any worker to a preventable fall is simply unacceptable. That’s why CPWR is proud to be a part of this effort to raise awareness of this problem and, hopefully, reduce deaths and injuries from falls on the job.” The article is available in both English and...
Read MoreDr. Christine Branche, principal associate director at NIOSH and director of its Office of Construction Safety and Health, and Jim Maddux, director of OSHA’s Directorate of Construction DATE: August 16, 2012 TIME: 2:00PM EST – 1:00PM CST – 11:00AM PST Two top officials in the construction offices of NIOSH and OSHA will discuss the national Fall Prevention Campaign, share the outreach materials from all of the campaign partners, and detail the campaign’s online and social media elements that can help contractors prevent fatal falls and needless injuries in construction. For more information or to sign up, click...
Read MoreAssistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Dr. David Michaels promoted the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction July 11, 2012 at the 7th Joint EU/US Conference on Occupational Safety and Health in Brussels, Belgium. Want to include the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction in an event? Know of an event that promoted the campaign? Please email us at falls@cpwr.com to let us...
Read MoreOn What’s New, you can now check out past and upcoming events that have featured the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction. So far, the events include: May 2012: DIA presented information on the Campaign May 16, 2012 at for Safety Day June 2012: Falls Campaign a focus at the ASSE Professional Development Conference in Denver: Presentations were made to the Construction Practice Specialty and the Risk and Insurance Management Practice Specialty; discussions were held at the construction regulation roundtable; Campaign Partners were interviewed by the media for upcoming articles; and OSHA promoted the Campaign at their booth Campaign materials presented at American Industrial Hygiene Conference in Indianapolis DIA presented information on the Campaign at DOL Safety Day June 13, 2012 at DOL Headquarters for Safety Day Campaign materials presented during marathon OSHA 10 training on June 19, 2012 in Texas August 2012: DIA will participate in NIH Safety Day August 29, and conduct outreach on the Campaign to the NIH Community Know of an event that features the Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction? Need assistance putting on an event? Email us at falls@cpwr.com. We would be glad to help and will add it to our...
Read MoreMary Watters of CPWR – the Center For Construction Research and Training has written a guest blog post highlighting the Fatality Map‘s history and the plans for the future: Right now, the 2012 map has a number of terrible accidents collected through June 14, but we’ve not yet received fatality reports from OSHA, which are critical. We hope to have OSHA’s information by the end of June to include it and load a mid-year map of fatalities through June of 2012. The lag time for reporting a death that happens now is about two weeks, a significant improvement from two years and something we think is crucial in highlighting what is going on surrounding this crucial safety issue. Still, if we post info too quickly, we miss other reporting sources that can give more details on causes, so we are careful not to rush. Read the rest of the blog post for more information. If you know of a fatality in the construction sector you would like to report, please email...
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