Articles published in trade/union magazines


2009

Heitbrink W, Watters M [2009].  Dangerous Work: Vacuum attachments on mortar grinders control dust and protect workers' lungs.  Masonry Construction.  February.

http://www.masonryconstruction.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=0&articleID=883612

Huang, Y.H., Leamon, T. B., Courtney, T.K., Chen, P.Y., & DeArmond, S. (in press).  Corporate financial decision-makers' views of workplace safety: What safety professionals should know? Professional Safety.

Kaskutas V [2009]. Fall Prevention Research with Washington University,  The Cutting Edge, The Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity. August.

McCann M, Watters M [2009].  Driven to Death:  Some of the biggest work hazards come on four wheels.  Here's what you can do to prevent them.  Painter and Wallpaper Contractor.  http://www.paintstore.com/article.php?item=2690

Moraski P, Watters M [2009]. Lift Teams Share the Load: Missing pain instead of missing work. BAC Journal, Issue 4. http://www.bacweb.org/news/journal_archive/2009_04/nib2.htm

Moraski P, Watters M [2009]. Lift Teams Share the Load. Occupational Health and Safety, Vol. 78, No. 11, November.

http://ohsonline.com/Articles/2009/11/02/Ergonomics-Lift-Teams-Share-the-Load.aspx

Roach T, Watters M [2009].  You Can Be Part of the Safety Solution. Protection Update.  April.

Watters M [2009].  Lessons Learned in Las Vegas: Site safety assessment yields lessons in construction safety and health programs, practices and safety climate.  Occupational Health & Safety. 

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2009/06/03/lessons-learned-from-las-vegas.aspx?sc_lang=en

2008

Belman D [2008]. “The Construction Industry and the Economy,”  TAUC Website. http://www.tauc.org/press/index.cfm?fa=article&id=341

Belman D [2008]. “The Construction Industry and the Economy,” Contractor Talk, Finishing Contractors Association, July.

Belman D, Ormiston R, Scriver, W Kelso, R, Frank, K  [2008].“The Effect of Project Labor Agreements on the Cost of School Construction in New England,” accepted for publication, Industrial Relations, June.

Belman D, Smith A [2008].  Reconstructing Construction Unionism:  Beyond Top Down and Bottom Up, in The Future of Union Organizing, Gregor Gall, Ed. (forthcoming in 2009).

Dong X, Men Y, Fujimoto A, Welch L, McCann M, Gittleman J, Trahan C [2008]. The Construction Chart Book, The U.S. Construction Industry and its Workers, Fourth Edition. MD: CPWR-The Center for Construction Research and Training.

Dong X, Ringen K, Fujimoto A [2008]. Expanding Access to Health Care for Hispanic Construction Workers and Their Children. Chapter in Health Insurance in the United States, Washington DC: The National Academy Press (Scheduled to be published in November 2008).

Kaskutas V, Drendell-Mueller L [2008].  Contractors Learn About Apprentice Fall Prevention Training, The Cutting Edge, The Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity, September.

McCann M, Gittleman J, Watters M.  [2008].  Crane-related deaths in construction and recommendations for their prevention.  CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training. Silver Spring, MD. Available at www.cpwr.com/research-cranereport.html

McCann M, Gittleman J, Watters M.  [2008].  Crane-related deaths in construction and recommendations for their prevention. IUOE Newsletter. Summer 2008

Ochsner M, Marshall E, Kimmel L, Martino M, Cunningham R, Hoffner K. (in press) Immigrant Day Laborers in New Jersey:  Baseline Data from a Participatory Research Project.  New Solutions:  Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.

Roach T, Watters M [2008].  Finding Solutions to Your Safety and Health Problems Just Got Easier.  Masonry Construction Magazine, and

http://www.masonryconstruction.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=0&articleID=635179.  January.

Roach T, Watters M [2008].  Finding Solutions to Your Safety and Health Problems Just Got Easier.  Modern Contractor Solutions, www.moderncontractorsolutions.com April 2008.  

Roach T, Watters M [2008].  New Website Seeks Solutions to Safety and Health Problems.  The Journal. (Sheet Metal Workers Union) May/June.

Ronk C, Dennerlein JT, Perry MJ. [2008].  Prevalence of hazards associated with falls from construction stepladders.  Proceedings of the NORA New Researcher Symposium, July. 

Watters M [2008].  "Construction Solutions" - new approach to providing solutions for construction hazards.  NORA Construction Sector News.  April.

Watters M [2008].  Innovative outreach to Spanish-speaking construction workers through telenovelas.  NORA Construction Sector News.  April.

Watters M [2008].  Online version of Construction Chart Book now available. NORA Construction Sector News.  April.

Watters M [2008].  What's Up with Cranes?  The Construction User.  Fall.

http://www.tauc.org/toolsResources/magazine/index.cfm?fa=article&id=348

and

http://www.tauc.org/files/TAUC_TheConstructionUserMag_Fall2008.pdf

(see page 17)

Watters, M [2008]. Your Life – and Health – in the Balance. Plasters and Cement Masons, Fall.

Watters, M [2008]. Gravity works in any language. The Journeyman Roofer and Waterproofer. Second Quarter.

2007

Atkinson ML, Watters M [2007]. The changing face of construction fatalities. The Journeyman Roofer and Waterproofer. Third Quarter, 2007.

Colorado State University [2006]. The newsletter of Safety Management Applied Research Team.  Volume 1, Issue 1, July.

DeArmond S, Huang YH, Chen PY [2007]. How do we stack up: Corporate financial decision makers’ perceptions of safety performance, safety programs and safety personnel.  Professional Safety, March, 28-34. 

Dong X, Ringen K, Fujimoto A. [2007]. Expanding Access to Health Care for Hispanic Construction Workers and Their Children. Chapter of a book on Health Insurance in The United States, Washington D.C.: The National Academy Press (Scheduled to be published in December 2007).

Gittleman JL [2007]. National Academies of Science. Evidence Package for Construction Sector. Co-author,  Chapter 2.2-Lead exposure and various health effects, pg. 194-223.  Co-author, Chapter  4.1-Use and improve resources to identify and track construction safety and health risks, pg. 377-403. July 17.

Gittleman JL, Roscoe R, Alarcon W. Lead in the Construction Industry [2007]. The Construction Chart Book. The U.S. Construction Industry and Its Workers. 4th ed..   pg. 44 and  Lung Hazards Including Asbestos, Silica, Dusts and Fumes, pg. 43,  December.

Hess J, Weinstein M [2007]. Innovations Reduce Injuries:  Equipment, materials, and work practices are available to protect masons. Masonry Construction, 20(8); 22-28.

Hess J, Weinstein M. [2007]. Innovations Reduce Injuries: Equipment, materials, and work practices are available to protect masons.  Masonry Construction.

Huang YH, Chen JC, DeArmond S, Cigularov K, Chen PY [2007] In Press. Roles of safety climate and shift work on perceived injury risk: A mulit-level analysis, Accident Analysis and Prevention.

Kaskutas V [2007]. New Fall Prevention Curriculum at the Carpenters’ Joint Apprenticeship Program, The Cutting Edge, The Carpenters District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity, July.

Lipscomb HJ [2007]. The Cutting Edge, publication of the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity, June.

Lipscomb HJ, Jackson L [2007]. Nailgun injuries treated in U.S. emergency departments, 1998-2005. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 56(14); April 13.

MacCollum D [2007]. Construction Safety Engineering Principles: Designing and Managing Safer Job Sites, (construction textbook). Published by McGraw Hill.

MacCollumn D  [2007]. “Analysis and Control of Crane and Aerial Lift Hazards” Report submitted to CPWR.

McCann M, Watters, W [2007].  Primed to explode.  Occupational Health and Safety. Volume 76, Issue 6, June. Available at:  http://www.ohsonline.com/articles/48653/

McCann M. [2007].  Deaths of Heavy Equipment Operators in Construction, 1992-2005.  Published in October IUOE Newsletter as “IUOE Releases Operator Fatality Study.”

Nissen B, Angee A, Weinstein, M [2007]. Immigrant construction workers and health and safety:  The South Florida Experience, Labor Studies Journal, Volume 33, No. 1, pp. 48-62, March.

Rempel D, Star D, Gibbons B, Barr A, Janowitz I.  [2007].  Development and Evaluation of a New Device for Overhead Drilling.  Professional Safety, 52: 30-35.

Trahan C, Watters M [2007].  These problems aren't set in stone: Concrete burns.  Occupational Health and Safety.  Volume 76, Issue 3, March.

http://ohsonline.com/articles/2007/03/these-problems-arent-set-in-stone.aspx?sc_lang=en

Watters M [2007]. Immigrant workers. The Ironworker. Safety and Health Department Report, September-October.

Watters M [2007]. Tools of the trade: Health and safety information online. The Journeyman Roofer and Waterproofer, Second Quarter, 2007 (for safety & health column, uncredited).

Watters, M [2007]. The changing face of construction fatalities. The Journeyman Roofer and Waterproofer. Third Quarter.

2006

Albers J, Merlino L, Anton D, Rosecrance J, Kong Y. [2006]. Use of epidemiological data to prioritize construction ergonomic hand-tool exposure evaluations. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July.

Anton D, Rosecrance JC, Cook TM. [2006]. Effect of aviation snip design on muscular activity and user satisfaction. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July.

Fethke N, Anton D, Cavanaugh J. [2006]. The effect of EMG sampling duration on forceful exertion exposure estimates. Proceedings of the 16th World Congress of the International Ergonomics Association, Maastricht, The Netherlands, July.

Harvard School of Public Health/Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety [2006]. Step-by-step ladder safety. Contractor Tools and Supplies September/October Issue.

Hecker SF, Schneider S, Hess JA, Kincl LD [2006]. Chapter 50:  Ergonomics in general construction.  In: Marras WS, Karwowski W, eds. Occupational Ergonomics Handbook. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, pp 50-1—50-30.

Hess JA, Kincl LD, Albers JT [2006]. Evaluation of a tool extension to reduce low back injury in carpenters. In: Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), Maastricht, Netherlands.

McCann M [2006].  Dangers in loading, unloading heavy equipment. International Operating Engineer, p. 11, Winter 2006.

McCann M, Zaleski N [2006].  Deaths and injuries involving elevators or escalators (3rd ed.). The Center to Protect Workers' Rights Report. December.

SMLR [2006]. Occupational safety and health education new labor training. The Newsletter of the School of Management of Labor Relations Rutgers University. Page 14, Fall.

Weinstein M, Hecker S, Hess JA [2006]. Action research to diffuse ergonomic innovations in the U.S. construction industy. In: Proceedings of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), Maastricht, Netherlands.

2003

McCann, Michael. Stress in rescue and recovery workers. NYCOSH Safety Rep Special Edition: The Many Lessons of September 11. March 2003, 27-28.

2002

Causes of Roofer Deaths. Safety Bulletin, 3(1): 3, January 1, 2002. (Associated General Contractors of Indiana).

Korman, Richard. 2002. Improved Work Practices Flow from ‘Natural Inventors.’ ENR, July 1, p. 14. (UMLowell ergonomics Bright Ideas)

Kurta, Lawrence. Construction Sites - The Ultimate Industrial Hygiene Challenge. The Turning Point, 2(3):1-3, April 2002. RTS Consulting, Canada.

Speaking with Pete Stafford. Compliance Magazine, February 2002, pp. 4,6.  

2001

Deaths from Aerial Lifts in Construction. Safety News (National Electrical Contractors Association), September 2001, 1-4.

2000

Why Are So Many Construction Workers Being Electrocuted? Safety News (National Electrical Contractors Association), August 2000, 1-3.

A Changing Focus for CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training, Construction Safety News. Summer 2000, 23-25. (Construction Safety Council)

1999

Pleasure, Robert J. Setting a ‘Ground Up’ Agenda for Construction Safety and Health. Safety Perspectives column. Safe Workplace. Spring 1999, 34-35.

1998

Cheap, Lightweight Unit Can Reduce Risky Welding Fumes. Construction Safety News, Spring 1998, 13.

CPWR — The Center for Construction Research and Training: Research & Resource for Risk Reduction. Safety News. December 1998. Bethesda , Md. : National Electrical Contractors Association newsletter.

Crane Changes. Hard Hat, Spring 1998, 31. (Small study press release)

Karr, Al. Construction Industry Builds Safer Workplaces. Safety and Health, 157(2): 34, February 1998. (Assistance from WMD project)

1997

Back Injuries. Construction Job Hot Sheet. Wilmington , N.C. , October 1997 (Hazard alert).

 Barnhard, John. Repetitive Stress Injuries Among Roofers. The Journeyman Roofer & Waterproofer, July-August-September, 1997, 11 (Roofers report input)

Bertrand, Kate. Construction Workers Build Upon Safety with Ergonomics. Today’s Supervisor (National Safety Council). October 1997, 12-13.

Construction Noise. N.A.A.C.W. Construction Job Hotsheet. Wilmington , N.C. , Sept. 1997 (Hazard alert)

Ergonomics. USF+G Insurance handbook, based largely on Schneider and Susi AIHA article and CPWR Ergonomics checklist. 1997.

Goldberg, Mark, and Stephen Levin. Ambient Air Monitoring Provides Critical Information for Workers. Lead Detection and Abatement Contractor, June, 1997,. 13-14.

Melius, James M. Protecting workers from Lyme disease. OH&S Canada, July/August 1996, 14-15. OSHA Group Considers Need for Better Job Site Restrooms. Oregon Tradeswomen Network (newsletter), December 1997. (Impact article reprint)

Solvents. Construction Job Hotsheet. Wilmington , N.C. , November 1997 (Hazard alert)

Welding Fumes and Gases: Safety Tip of the Month. N.A.A.C.W. Construction Job Hotsheet. August 1997. (Welding hazard alert card reprint)

1996

Perspective on Ergonomics. ACGIH Today!, August 1996. (WMD project)

1995

Medicine, 27:195-205, 1995. Looks at five leading causes of death and primary occupations

1994

Ergonomics in Construction. ASSE Construction Division Newsletter, Winter 1994, 11-12.

Schneider, Scott. Ergonomics in Construction, NCA Newsletter, Oct.-Dec.1994, 3-4. (National Constructors Association) (WMD)

Worked to Death. Houston Chronicle series on construction safety and health, 1994.(CPWR staff assistance).

 

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