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Programming
activities center around the common vision of a world in which
workers acting collectively, their union representatives, employers,
government, users of construction services, academia, and the
public work together to prevent occupational fatalities, injuries,
and illnesses and continuously improve working conditions throughout
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As of Nov. 9, 2007, our organization, The Center to Protect Workers’ Rights (CPWR), changed its name.
While our acronym, CPWR, has tremendous standing within the building trades and among the construction safety and health community, our name, The Center to Protect Workers’ Rights, did not accurately reflect who we are and what we do. Since the inception of our research agenda in 1990, we have continued to grow the core mission in our field of construction safety and health, while also expanding in other areas in support of our parent organization – The Building and Construction Trades Department. Our Officers and Board of Directors decided it was time for a name that better describes our work yet maintains the recognition of the organization we’ve worked long and hard to create.
That name is CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. This new name retains “CPWR” and “the Center,” as many people call us, as we add words that are at the heart of our work.
But this name change in no way diminishes our fervent commitment to protecting construction workers so that they have safe and healthy jobsites. We lose an average of four construction workers a day from fatal injuries in our nation. CPWR is determined to research the causes of worker injury, illness and death and to find remedies. Through our Train-the-Trainer instruction, we reach tens of thousands of construction workers on everything from basic OSHA 10 classes to disaster response and safe handling of hazardous materials. As an invaluable resource to the industry, we will continue our mission of improving working conditions for all construction workers.
Reading our mission statement below, you can be assured that we maintain these activities and seek to find new ways to aid people in the construction sector. We have already begun to research economic and policy issues that affect building trades workers, unions, contractors and affiliated organizations.
We look forward to continuing our service as we move forward as CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training.
- To conduct research concerning the quality of
working conditions; the social, economic, and psychological factors
influencing work organization; the impacts on workers and working
conditions of new technologies and industry change; and analyses
of corporate and government policies and consensus standards that
affect the worksite;
- To publicize the results of such studies and make them available
to interested citizens and appropriate agencies of the government;
- To encourage the elimination or reduction of conditions constituting
hazards to the safety or health of workers, and to promote the
maintenance and improvement of safe and healthy working conditions
for workers;
- To provide training resources and technical services to
apply research findings at the work site and to direct research
in defining and addressing issues of importance to workers.
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