News and Updates:

Dr. John Gambatese gave a plenary address on DfCS at the CIB W099 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia October 21-23, 2009

The Harvard University School of Public Health held a very successful week-long course entitled "Safety in Design and Construction: a Lifecycle Approach" February 23-27, 2009. This course will be offered again February 22-26, 2010.

The fifteenth meeting of the OSHA Alliance Program Construction Roundtable Design for Construction Safety workgroup was held at the OSHA/DOL building in Washington, DC on February 24, 2009. This meeting was a joint meeting with the Fall Protection Workgroup.

Designing for construction safety was identified at the NIOSH NORA Construction Sector Council meeting in September 2007 as one of NIOSH's top ten research priorities for the construction sector. Dr. TJ Lenz is the NIOSH Co-Chair of the Council Design for Safety and Prevention workgroup. He can be reached at tbl7@cdc.gov.

Copies of an excellent reference on DfCS are now available at a very reasonable price. Please contact Marc Weinstein to order your copy of: Hecker, S., Gambatese, J., and Weinstein, M., Editors (2004). Designing for Safety and Health in Construction, Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press. Proceedings of the Designing for Safety and Health in Construction Research and Practice Symposium, sponsored by: University of Oregon; Center to Protect Workers' Rights; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Oregon State University; and Industrial Design and Construction, Portland, OR, Sept. 15-16, 2003.