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.
Learn more NIOSH National Construction Center Preventing Opioids Deaths Resources. Watch our videos series: Opioids in the Construction Industry.
NIOSH Science Blogs: Construction
Spotlights
- Construction Helmets & Work-Related Traumatic Brain Injury 11/10
- Respirator Selection Guide: Construction 9/22
- Masks & Respirators: Construction 7/22
- Infrastructure Resources: Keeping Construction Workers Safe 3/22
- Preventing Struck-by Fatalities: Excavator Quick Couplers 3/22
- Exoskeletons: Potential to Prevent WMSDs 2/22
Falls are the #1 cause of construction fatalities. Join the National Campaign to Prevent Falls. Click here to learn more. Infographics
Struck-by injuries are the #2 cause of construction fatalities. Click here to learn more.
Part 1: The Evolution of a Crisis
Part 2: Impacting Lives
Part 3: Pathways to Recovery
This safety officer thinks Falls Protection is achievable
Fall protection allows his men to go home at the end of the day
Las Caídas Cuestan; La Historia de un "Safety Man"
The owner of a residential framing company designs safety into each of his job sites
A construction framer talks about protecting his crew from falls
Trabajador de la construcción se protege de las caídas de techo
Construcción: Protéjase en el Trabajo
Buy Quiet Construction Video
Know Your Nailer: Nail Gun Safety
Conozca su clavadora (versión corta)
Construction Topics
- 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 / Immigrant Workers / Non-standard Work Arrangements
- NewProtecting temporary workers: best practices for host employers
- Results: Construction Safety Climate Survey of Hispanic Workers
- Hispanic Construction Worker Perspectives on Worksite Safety and Risk
- Protect Yourself at Work – Protéjase en el trabajo
- Differences in safety training among smaller and larger construction firms with non-native workers
- Overlapping Vulnerabilities
- Characterising near misses and injuries in the temporary agency construction workforce
- Comparative analyses of workers’ compensation claims of injury among temporary & permanent employed workers in Ohio
- Lead
- Methylene Chloride
- Indoor Environmental Quality
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Nail Guns
- Noise and Hearing Loss
- Opioids
- National Construction Center: Opioid Resources
- NewTimes are Tough: Protect Construction Workers from Opioids Risks (English|Spanish)
- NIOSH Science Blog: Opioids
- Preventing Opioid-Related Harms in the Construction Industry
- Outdoor Workers
- Prevention Through Design
- Robotics (incl. drones, exoskeletons)
- Silica
- Small Business
- Suicide
- National Construction Center: Suicide Prevention Resources
- Mental Health Suffers during Pandemic: Support Fellow Construction Workers (English|Spanish)
- NIOSH Science Blogs: Suicide
- Trenching and Excavation
- NewWelder’s Anthrax
- Welding and Manganese
- Other topics
Construction Resources
- Data Resources
- NIOSH State-based Clearinghouse – can search by construction
- Insurance and Workers Compensation for Construction – Webinar Series
- Construction Solutions
- Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (eLCOSH)
- 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
- Designing a Participatory Total Worker Health® Organizational Intervention for Commercial Construction Subcontractors to Improve Worker Safety, Health, and Well-Being
- Lessons learned from near-miss reports to reduce risk tolerance
- Review of Construction Employer Case Studies of Safety and Health Equipment Interventions
- Building a Sustainable Construction Workforce
- Interventions to Prevent Injuries in Construction Workers
- Preventing Fatalities in the Construction Industry
For Our Partners
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)