Collective Fall Protection for Construction Workers

Workers Not Always Using Their Fall Protection Equipment?

Fall on Residential Construction Sites

Falls from height remain the most common cause of workplace fatalities among residential construction workers, accounting for 64% of the fatalities in residential building and 100% of the fatalities among framing contractors in 2010 (BLS, 2011). Despite a recent decrease in fall incidence rates (BLS, 2011), 164 of the 1,025 carpenter apprentices surveyed (16%) reported a fall from height in the...

After the fall: why fall protection isn't always enough.

Fall protection incentives in the construction industry: literature review and field study.

Safety literature confirms that incentives such as money or sunglasses seem to improve safety conditions over the short run. However, no studies could be found which tested the effect of incentives on fall protection for a period longer than a few days. In our research we found that after 6 months, the use of non-material incentives significantly improved on-time delivery and completion rates o...

Ambiguity, Identity Construction and Stress amongst Knowledge Workers: Developing Collective Coping Strategies through Negotiations of Meaning

The point of departure for the project “Preventing stress in knowledge work” is the realisation that in order to work on preventing stress amongst ‘knowledge workers’, a new understanding of the concept of stress and knowledge work is required. This paper explores how stress and associated mechanisms for coping in knowledge work can be understood both in terms of ambiguity, continuous identity ...