Intervention research in construction: A hypothetical case study of painters

Wolford, Rodney

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“…Given the seasonality of construction work, the tendency of construction workers to change employers frequently, pressures imposed by contract deadlines, and the constant changes in work environment, workers and employers are constantly challenged to adapt to new work situations, each presenting its own potential hazards [Wolford, 1996;Ringen et al, 1995;Snashall, 1990]. Employers, through provision of appropriate training and encouragement and rewarding of safe work practices, and workers, through adoption and adherence to these practices, can further reduce the risks associated with work around machinery in the construction industry.…”

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Machinery-related fatalities in the construction industry

1997

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The National Traumatic Occupational Fatalities (NTOF) surveillance system identified machinery‐related incidents as the fourth leading cause of traumatic occupational fatalities in the U.S. construction industry between 1980 and 1992, resulting in 1,901 deaths and 2.13 deaths per 100, 000 workers. Fatality rates declined 50% over the study period. Workers in three occupation divisions—precision production, craft, and repair; transportation and material moving; and handlers, equipment cleaners, helpers, and laborers—had both the highest frequency and rate of fatalities. Cranes, excavating machinery, and tractors were the machines most frequently involved. The most common incident types were: struck by a mobile machine; overturn; and struck by a boom. Further delineation of groups at highest risk for machinery‐related injuries is complicated by a lack of data on exposure to machinery. The findings suggest that injury prevention programs should focus not only on machine operators, but on those who work on foot around machines. Am. J. Ind. Med. 32:42‐50, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. This article is a US Government work and, as such, is in the public domain in the United States of America.

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Machinery-related fatalities in the construction industry

1997

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“…Small contractors are an especially difficult audience to reach with a safety message, and yet, there are thousands of them across the United States who, on a daily basis, direct thousands of employees in their work. The characteristics and barriers in this industry that make it difficult to implement successful prevention and training programs that reach, educate, and motivate small contractors have been described (Kidd et al, 2004;Ringen, Englund, & Seegal, 1995;Ringen & Stafford, 1996;Wolford, 1996). These characteristics include diffuse worksite control; short-term worksites; multiemployer worksites; everchanging working conditions; episodic employment; working for more than one employer; lack of trained health and safety staff; and fierce bidding competition, making safety budgets inadequate.…”

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“…The intervention focus on supervisors reflected both the stakeholders' thinking and the conclusions found in the work and research by Ringen et al (1995), Ringen and Stafford (1996), Wolford (1996), Kidd et al (2004), and Gillen et al (2002).…”

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Conducting Effective Tailgate Trainings

Harrington

Materna

Vannoy

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Health Promotion Practice

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The California Department of Health Services' Occupational Health Branch and others have identified the construction industry as being at high risk for injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. Effective tailgate trainings (brief job site safety meetings) can be a powerful tool to promote hazard awareness and safe work practices. The authors found that many contractors and supervisors conducted ineffective tailgate trainings. They developed the BuildSafe California Project to assist contractors to have more effective programs by holding 25 training-of-trainers sessions reaching 1,525 participants. The needs assessment, intervention, and evaluation results from the first 18 trainings are presented. Eighty-six percent of the participants found the program "very helpful." Participants used the materials and made improvements in the quality and frequency of trainings. Supervisors must be skilled at conducting tailgate trainings as part of their responsibilities. There is a serious need to provide more culturally appropriate safety training in a workforce increasingly made up of Latino workers.

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“…Hypothetical case studies are used in a number of fields, including drug research (Soller, 2004) construction (Wolford, 1996), economics (White, Abboud, & Holt, 2003), and law (Crutchfield, 1996), to give but a few examples. They are used to aid in objectivity and are from the orientation of "getting to why" (Soller, 2004, p. 159) without overt over-reliance by the researcher on single incidents or cases.…”

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The Presence of Stigma Among Users of the MMORPG RMT

Grundy

2008

Games and Culture

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In those massive multiplayer online role-play games in which the real money trade (RMT) is specifically prohibited by the end user license agreement and terms of service, researchers should be aware of the impact of their work into potentially sensitive topic areas. If these users of the RMT secondary market feel they are a stigmatized community, this will potentially directly affect access to data, data integrity, data bias, and the ability to disclose and disseminate back to the research community. A hypothetical qualitative case study approach is applied using three separate research elements to aid in the understanding of why prospective research candidates could potentially feel stigmatized.

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Intervention research in construction: A hypothetical case study of painters

Cited by 9 publications

References 1 publication

Machinery-related fatalities in the construction industry

Machinery-related fatalities in the construction industry

Conducting Effective Tailgate Trainings

The Presence of Stigma Among Users of the MMORPG RMT

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