CONSTRUCTION SAFETY AND HEALTH

Construction workers and employers build our roads, houses, and workplaces and repair and maintain our nation’s physical infrastructure. For a sense of where construction stands by the numbers, read more here. Construction includes building new structures, renovations involving additions, alterations, or maintenance, and repair of buildings or engineering projects such as highways or utility systems. Construction worksites are organizationally complex multi-employer sites and present numerous health and safety challenges. The NIOSH Construction Program provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by systematically gathering information, conducting targeted scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products, solutions and services tailored to meet construction needs. In collaboration with industry and labor partners and stakeholders, including OSHA, we are dedicated to improving safety and health conditions for all construction workers.

Spotlights

• May 7-11, 2018: Join us for the National Safety Stand-Down and National Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction
• Differences in safety training among smaller and larger construction firms with non-native workers: Evidence of overlapping vulnerabilities
• New NIOSH Center for Occupational Robotics Research
  • Robotics and Automation in the Construction Industry
  • October 2017 article “Unmanned aerial vehicles in construction and worker safety”
  • NIOSH Science Blog: Can Drones Make Construction Safer?
  • NIOSH Science Blog: Exoskeletons in Construction: Will they reduce or create hazards?
• NIOSH Science Blog “Opportunities for Integrating Safety and Health into Sustainable Building Projects: Have You Tried the Prevention through Design (PtD) Pilot Credit?”