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Preventing falls through skylights: The California FACE program


Tuesday, November 5, 2013 : 5:30 p.m. - 5:42 p.m.

Laura Styles, MPH, Occupational Health Branch, CA Department of Public Health/Public Health Institute, Richmond, CA
James Rogge, MD, MPH, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
Egils Kronlins, BA, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
Hank Cierpich, BS, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health/Public Health Institute, Richmond, CA
Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
David Harrington, MPH, Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health, Richmond, CA
Nationwide, falls are the leading cause of work-related injury and death in construction. The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (CA FACE) program has produced a training video that highlights the risk of falls when working around skylights. The video explains the events that led to a roofing supervisor falling through a skylight, as told by co-workers who were there that day. Investigation findings and photographs from the previously-published CA FACE fatality report are supplemented with scenes ‘re-created' by workers in the field. Prevention recommendations are highlighted. This video will be used by roofing companies, unions, government agencies, and trade associations to prevent workplace falls.

Learning Areas:

Occupational health and safety

Learning Objectives:
Explain when personal fall protection must be used. Describe how this fatal fall could have been prevented.

Keyword(s): Occupational Injury and Death, Occupational Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the co-PI on the California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program, and I produced and directed the solar video.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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