Popular education approach to occupational safety and health training using NIOSH fatality reports

The OSHA 10-hour Construction Industry Outreach Training Program is intended to provide a variety of construction safety and health training to entry level workers. OSHA states that the training should emphasize hazard identification, avoidance, control and prevention not OSHA standards.

Often health and safety training is delivered through the use of power point presentations. This approach is often counter productive and ineffective for workers who are used to being “in the field” rather than sitting at a desk in a classroom setting.

Using a popular education approach to training where the needs of the adult learner are considered and accommodated, this workshop will provide participants with information regarding the efficacy of using NIOSH fatality reports as a means of meeting the requirements of the OSHA 10-hour Construction Industry Outreach Training Program.

Attendees will briefly review a NIOSH fatality report which details a construction-related fatality. Working in a small group, attendees will discuss the incident and develop two recommendations designed to prevent a repeat of the accident detailed in the NIOSH report. A member of the group will then provide a report back on the recommendations.

This session will include evaluation data along with anecdotal examples from construction industry workers who have completed the OSHA 10-hour Construction Industry training presented by the authors of this abstract regarding the workers' ability to identify, avoid, control and prevent hazards (including possibly fatalities) on the job.