Heat Stress
Heat Stress. This safety bulletin outlines the symptoms of heat stress and procedures to control worker exposure.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Heat Stress
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:2006
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care
Back Care. (NOTE: within the Safety Talk Manual pages 13-16) Leads the instructor through explaining dangers, identifying controls, demonstrating proper techniques and suggesting stretching exercises.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Safety meetingYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Cold and Heat Stress
Cold and Heat Stress. Leads the instructor through explaining dangers and identifying controls.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Heat Stress Cold Stress
Document Type:Safety meetingYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Heat Stress
Heat Stress. Guidelines for recognizing, assessing and controlling heat stress with emphasis on construction operations where heat stress commonly occurs.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Heat Stress
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care and Manual Materials Handling in Construction
Back Care and Manual Materials Handling in Construction. This guideline reviews back anatomy, common risk factors for back injuries and the use of administrative and engineering controls for injury prevention.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:GuidelineYear:1993
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Construction Health and Safety Manual
Construction Health and Safety Manual. The manual contains everything you need to recognize and protect yourself against construction health and safety hazards. Relevant chapters include heat stress (chapter 6), cold stress (chapter 7) and back care (chapter 8).

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic: Back Care Cold Stress Heat Stress
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2007
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Hand Protection
Hand Protection. This fact sheet reviews physical hazards workers are exposed to and the benefits of wearing gloves related to contact stress, vibration and cold temperatures.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic: Contact Stress Vibration Cold Stress
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:2002
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Manual Materials Handling
Manual Materials Handling. This fact sheet reviews general lifting techniques to help reduce worker exposure to manual material handling hazards.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Manual Materials Handling
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:1998
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Musculoskeletal Disorders
Musculoskeletal Disorders. What are the causes and controls in construction? This fact sheet provides an overview on MSDs in the construction industry, primary and secondary risk factors and common engineering and administrative controls.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:MSD Prevention
Document Type:Fact sheetYear:2000
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care for Construction
Back Care for Construction. Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to demonstrate correct lifting and carrying techniques.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Training SessionYear:
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario

Back Care for Construction Video
Back Care for Construction Video This video demonstrates various lifting techniques, proper posture and basic back care. Workers on the job demonstrate back-saving procedures, including the golfer’s lift, overhead lift and two-person lift.

MSD Job Title/Task: Construction - General
Topic:Back Care
Document Type:Video (on-line)Year:
Source:Construction Safety Association of OntarioView Source Details
Location: Ontario