News and Updates:
Researchers at Bucknell University and Oregon State University would appreciate it if you could take a brief anonymous survey regarding the design for safety concept. Please click here to be taken to the Surveymonkey.com survey.
Researchers at Bucknell University, Oregon State University, East Carolina University and Purdue University are creating modules to help faculty incorporate prevention through design concepts and examples into their classes. The first four modules will address steel, concrete, MEP and architectural design. If you have ideas or examples to contribute to these important projects, please contact Mike Toole at Bucknell.
The OSHA Alliance Program’s Construction Roundtable has drafted a set of six Construction Workplace Design Solutions for fall and other hazards. Download them from the Media tab on this site.
The Harvard University School of Public Health held its second very successful week-long course entitled "Safety in Design and Construction: a Lifecycle Approach" February 22-26, 2010. This course will next be held February 28-March 4, 2011.
Dr. John Gambatese gave a plenary address on DfCS at the CIB W099 Conference held in Melbourne, Australia October 21-23, 2009.
The sixteenth meeting of the OSHA Alliance Program Construction Roundtable Design for Construction Safety workgroup was held at the OSHA/DOL building in Washington, DC on November 19, 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.
