North Carolina Young Worker Safety in Construction Survey

This study, led by researchers from the UNC Injury Prevention Research Center, aimed to identify the conditions under which young construction workers were employed, the type of training they received, their knowledge about company policies related to teenage employment (hours, tasks, supervision), and their experiences, if any, with on-the-job injuries. The SRU assisted in the development of the survey instrument, conducted the pilot and main study telephone interviews, and prepared a final codebook and dataset for analysis. As part of the pilot study in the fall of 2000, SRU interviewers completed 135 CATI interviews with teenage construction workers in North Carolina. For main study data collection in the fall of 2001, the SRU gathered telephone survey data from 227 teenagers who had worked in construction during the past summer.
Principal Investigator:	Carol Runyan, PhD UNC-Chapel Hill Injury Prevention Research Center
SRU Investigators:	Ashley Bowers, MS
Source:	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Dates:	September 2000 – October 2001

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