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Prevent Construction Worker Falls Campaign Information, Tools
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) supports the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) initiative to prevent construction worker falls, the number one cause of death in the construction industry and a leading cause of injuries. For information on the campaign and how you can prevent falls including fact sheets, statistics, posters and more in English, Spanish and other languages, please check out the following:
- News: ASSE Releases Revisions to A10.32 Fall Protection Standard
- Fall Prevention Campaign
- News: ASSE announces support for new efforts to further prevent construction worker falls
- OSHA’s fall prevention web site
- Interactive map of construction fatalities
- U.S. fall fatality stats for first half of 2012
- ASSE construction practice specialty group
- OSHA’s Fall Protection in Residential Construction web page, including overview of workers comp costs from falls PowerPoint
- Fall Protection Within the U.S. Navy – ASSE article
- All About ANSI/ASSE’s Fall Protection Code article