WASHINGTON — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) Construction Sector Council have announced the re-launch of its construction fall prevention campaign.
According to OSHA, the 2012 campaign reached hundreds of thousands of workers, and the three campaign websites received more than half a million page views this past year.
Campaign partners and stakeholders also spread the campaign’s message to thousands of construction workers and employers through e-mail blasts, radio and television broadcasts, webinars, publications, trainings and outreach events. Still, falls continue to be the most fatal hazard in the construction industry, accounting for almost one in every three construction worker deaths in this country. The construction fall prevention campaign raises awareness about fall hazards by providing information that employers and workers can use to prevent injury and death.