August 24, 2005—August marked the fifth year the Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (eLCOSH) has been available online.
Supported by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Web site provides user-friendly information to help workers, small contracting firms, safety managers, and others reduce injuries and illnesses in the construction industry.
eLCOSH offers brochures, training materials, power point presentations, videos, and other materials from numerous sources including trade magazines, labor-management programs, state agencies, and research projects conducted at NIOSH and academia. Annotated links feature more than 50 construction safety and health related Web sites. The Web site has grown to include 767 documents, including 132 in Spanish and also features a separate Spanish site map.
eLCOSH is coordinated by the Center to Protect Workers’ Rights, a research, training and service arm of the 15 construction unions in the AFL-CIO, with technical support from Conceptual Arts, Inc. NIOSH construction resources can be accessed from the NIOSH Web site.
