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The COHP provides ergonomics training to unions and safety professionals. We use an approach called Popular Education, which involves the learners actively in their own training and encourages students to share their own knowledge and experience with others. Electricians, operating engineers and safety trainers from several unions and contractors have enjoyed our ergonomic trainings and reported learning a lot. One of our ergonomics courses trains other trainers to use a Popular Education approach. To learn more, see the 2-hr Master Ergonomic Curriculum we work through in the Train-the-Trainer course. For more information on the COHP's ergonomic training programs or Popular Education Methods, please contact Senior Researcher Susan Moir.
- Lack of Sanitary and Handwashing Facilities on Construction Sites: An Issue of Health and dignity (Speech by Susan Moir)
- Ergonomics Awareness Training for Construction Workers (Outline of a 2-hr Master Ergonomic Training Curriculum)
- Research in Highway & Tunnel Construction - Lessons from Boston's Big Dig
Links
Listed below are several websites where you can find information important in the world of occupational health and safety, especially information that is relevant to construction workers.
- Associations and Research Centers
- US Governmental Institutions
- Foreign Governmental Institutions
- Research Centers
- Union Health and Safety Resources
- General
Associations and Research Centers
- Human Factors and Ergonomic Society
- The International Ergonomics Association
- ErgoWeb
- American Board of Industrial Hygienists
- American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienist
- American Industrial Hygiene Association
- Environmental Protection Agency
- NIH National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
- International Labour Organization
- International Society of Exposure Analysis
- CDC Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Hazdat
- CDC National Center for Environmental Health
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Mine Safety and Health Administration
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Department of Labor
- CDC National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- National Center for Health Statistics
- National Center for Injury Prevention
Foreign Governmental Institutions
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Research Centers
The COHP works with many other research centers around the country. Several of these research centers have recently banded together to form the Association of Construction Health and Safety Centers. Some members of this Association are:
- Philadelphia Area Labor Management Committee
- Labor Education and Research Center
- University of Oregon
- Conceptual Arts, Gainesville Florida
- Construction Safety Council, 4415 West Harrison Street, Suite 407 Hillside, IL 60162
- Safety and Health Extension, West Virginia University
- Mt. Sinai Hospital, 1 Gust Ave, Levy Place, NY 10029
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio
Union Health and Safety Resources
- The Center to Protect Workers Rights
- The health and safety page of the International Federation of Builders and Wood Workers
- The health and safety page of the AFL-CIO
- The health and safety page of the International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades
- The health and safety page of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry (UA)
- The IBEW updates health and safety bills before Congress
- Your health and safety rights on the job from the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) of the AFL-CIO
- International Construction Institute (ICI)
- This site gives the presentation on Training made by COHP Project Director Susan Moir at the NIOSH and OSHA sponsored conference "Ergonomics: Effective Workplace Practices and Programs" in Chicago on January 8 and 9, 1997.
- An excellent directory of other occupational health related sites generated by NIOSH
- Information on workers compensation and Occupational Safety & Health Law