Refugio Alvarez. Eric Buschard. Rebecca Klein. Aaron Boggs. Four safety and health professionals from across the country who share a common bond: all enthusiastically use a free safety climate assessment and improvement tool created by CPWR – The Center for Construction Research and Training (www.cpwr.com), a global leader in construction safety and health research, training and service. CPWR, a non-profit agency based in Silver Spring, MD, developed the Safety Climate-Safety Management Information System – SC-SMIS -- (www.scsmis.org) under the direction of Dr. Linda Goldenhar, CPWR Director, Research and Evaluation and with input from more than 70 safety and health expert stakeholders. This innovative web-based program is accessible at no cost to any company, both inside and outside of construction, interested in jobsite safety climate and safety management improvement.
Construction is no different than many businesses where small firms can’t afford to have full-time safety and health leaders able to focus on strengthening the company’s jobsite safety climate.