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Ladder safetyDisponible en Español

This hazard alert provides important details on preventing hazards while using a ladder. Hazard Alerts offer workers key information about a hazard and how to protect themselves from it in a pocket card or PDF.
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Safe Ladder Practices in Roofing

This video – developed by the Roofing r2p Partnership (National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA) and the United Union of Roofers and Waterproofers & Allied Workers, and CPWR) –  focuses on ladder safety during roofing work.

Infographics

Using data from CPWR and other trusted sources, these infographics raise awareness of occupational hazards and solutions. They can be downloaded as PDFs or JPEGs for use in social media, presentations, print materials, and on job sites.

Severe Injuries

This interactive dashboard examines OSHA severe injuries in construction.
report cover with title, and three separate photos of workers wearing or using fall protection.

Fall Experience Survey

This survey interviewed workers who had witnessed falls to fill in gaps in information available on common underlying causes of falls from heights.

Portable ladder assessment tool development and validation – quantif...

Jack T. Dennerlein, Christopher J. Ronk and Melissa J. Perry. Safety Science, May 2009.

The research team created an assessment tool based on West Virginia’s Fall Safe tool that contained checklists of yes/no questions covering ladder condition, setup, moving on a ladder, and completing tasks from a ladder.
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Evaluating Fall Safety Compliance among Skilled Trades in Construction

January 2015

Perry, Melissa J, Amanda McQueen, SeungSup Kim. CPWR Small Study. January 2015.

This study exploited a unique research opportunity to perform multiple repeat assessments of fall prevention compliance on one general contractor’s site during the bulk of construction activity.