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Aligning and Integrating Safety as a Value: CPWR Worksheet #2

This CPWR worksheet is the second of 8 to provide recommendations for strengthening jobsite safety climate. It provides 5 ideas for aligning and integ...

Ensuring Accountability at All Levels: CPWR Worksheet #3

This CPWR worksheet is the third of 8 to provide recommendations for strengthening jobsite safety climate. It provides 5 ideas for ensuring accountabi...

Winning Safer Workplaces: A Manual for State and Local Policy Reform

This manual is intended as a tool for state and local worker advocates to reform policies that affect worker health and safety. It highlights successf...

Workers: The Climate Canaries

Last March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued another round of critical warnings: evidence for climate change is unequivocal, proje...

Protecting Your Workers from Heat Stress

This NIOSH poster explains the importance of gradually getting workers up to speed on a hot job. This process, acclimatization, is critical to avoid h...

Planning Tool for Safe Manual Handling

This tool was created by the Institut de Recherche en Sante et Securite du Traivais (RSST) in Quebec, Canada. The guidance is structured to help manag...

TBT4 Move Materials With Assist

This tool box talk is fourth in a series of 6 developed by Washington University in St. Louis on construction ergonomics. This one focuses on preventi...

TBT6 Power Tools

This is the last in the series of 6 tool box talks created by Washington University in St. Louis on the subject of ergonomics in construction. This on...

TBT3 Positioning

This third in a series of 6 Tool Box Talks on construction ergonomics focuses on proper positioning to avoid injuries. The TBT recommends: 1)prop up a...

Safety & Health Information: Improving Online Access & Delivery

This article, published in Professional Safety magazine in May 2014, reviews the systematic methods employed by a multi-disciplinary team at CPWR to u...