Directory of Construction Resources
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. For a sense of where construction stands by the numbers, read more here.
Check out our NIOSH COVID-19 Science Blogs. Learn more by visiting our NIOSH National Construction Center COVID-19 Resourcesexternal icon.
Learn more by visiting our NIOSH National Construction Center Preventing Opioids Deaths Resourcesexternal icon. Watch our videos series: Opioids in the Construction Industry.
- Falls Campaign 2022: Making Research Work 4/22
- Infrastructure Resources: Keeping Construction Workers Safeexternal icon 3/22
- Preventing Struck-by Fatalities Related to Excavator Quick Couplers, Buckets, and Attachments 3/22
- Respiratory Protection Toolbox Talk 2/22
- Exoskeletons: Potential for Preventing WMSDs 2/22
- Partnering to Design Safe and Healthy Workplaces 2/22
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Struck-by injuries are the #2 cause of construction fatalities. Click hereexternal icon to learn more on how to prevent struck-by incidents.
- Asbestos
- Asphalt Fumes
- Carbon Monoxide
- Cold Stress
- Cured-in-Place-Pipe
- Electrical Safety
- Engineering Controls
- Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders
- Falls from Elevations
- Heat Stress
- Highway Work Zones
- Hispanic Workers
- Immigrant Workers
- Lead
- Methylene Chloride
- Indoor Environmental Quality
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Nail Guns
- Noise and Hearing Loss
- Nonstandard Work Arrangements
- Opioids
- National Construction Center: Opioid Resourcesexternal icon
- NewTimes are Tough: Protect Construction Workers from Opioids Risks (Englishpdf icon|Spanishpdf icon)
- NIOSH Science Blog: Opioids
- Preventing Opioid-Related Harms in the Construction Industryexternal icon
- Outdoor Workers
- Prevention Through Design
- Robotics (incl. drones, exoskeletons)
- Silica
- Small Business
- Suicide
- National Construction Center: Suicide Prevention Resourcesexternal icon
- Mental Health Suffers during Pandemic: Support Fellow Construction Workers (Englishpdf icon|Spanishpdf icon)
- NIOSH Science Blogs: Suicide
- Trenching and Excavation
- NewWelder’s Anthrax
- Welding and Manganese
- Other topics
- Data Resources
- NIOSH State-based Clearinghouse – can search by construction
- Insurance and Workers Compensation for Construction – Webinar Series
- Construction Solutionsexternal icon
- Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (eLCOSH)external icon
- Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program – can search by construction
- Health Hazard Evaluation Program – can search by construction
- NIOSH Construction Related Publications
- Health Risk Behavior Profile of Construction Workers external icon
- Designing a Participatory Total Worker Health® Organizational Intervention for Commercial Construction Subcontractors to Improve Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Beingexternal icon
- Lessons learned from near-miss reports to reduce risk toleranceexternal icon
- Review of Construction Employer Case Studies of Safety and Health Equipment Interventionsexternal icon
- Building a Sustainable Construction Workforceexternal icon
- Interventions to Prevent Injuries in Construction Workersexternal icon
- Preventing Fatalities in the Construction Industryexternal icon
National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA)
- Construction Sector Council
- Construction Sector Research Agenda
- National Campaign to Prevent Falls in Construction
NIOSH Construction Program
- About the NIOSH Office of Contruction Safety and Health
- NIOSH Construction Program Portfolio
- 2017 NIOSH Construction Program External Review
- 2007 NIOSH Construction Program National Academies’ Review
- National Center for Construction Safety and Health Research and Translation
- Construction Program Performance One-Pager (PPOP)