Workers in the plumbing and pipe-fitting industry experience a wide variety of physical and emotional pain related to job hazards and lifestyle issues. Pain treatment and stress can lead to prescription or illicit substance use. The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada has taken on these issues by adapting training developed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Opioids and the Workplace, Prevention and Response Training. Under the leadership of Cheryl Ambrose, Health, Safety, and Environmental Administrator, the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada has added an instructor training course and is tailoring the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences curriculum to industry and union needs.
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Workers in the plumbing and pipe-fitting industry experience a wide variety of physical and emotional pain related to job hazards and lifestyle issues. Pain treatment and stress can lead to prescription or illicit substance use. The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe-Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada has taken on these issues by adapting training developed by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Opioids and the Workplace, Prevention and Response Training.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study examined causes of deaths among unionized plumbers, pipefitters and allied trades.
Methods: Deaths of union members from the years 1971, 1979, 1987, and 1995 were selected as a representative sample from a computer file provided by the union. These years provided 15,411 deaths for proportionate mortality ratio (PMR) analysis.
A cohort study of mortality among Ontario pipe trades workers.
Occup Environ Med
September 2004
Program in Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8N 3Z5.
Aims: To study mortality in a cohort of members of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada and to compare results with two previous proportional mortality studies.
Methods: A cohort of 25,285 workers who entered the trade after 1949 was assembled from records of the international head office. Mortality was ascertained by linkage to the Canadian Mortality Registry at Statistics Canada.
A descriptive epidemiological study on pleural plaque cases identified from the worker's periodical health examinations in Kitakyushu, Japan.
Sangyo Igaku
July 1993
Department of Environmental Epidemiology, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.
Thirty-six pleural plaque (PP) cases, were identified from the worker's periodical health examination and were described in terms of its association with occupational exposure to asbestos and radiographic findings. Based on thorough interviews about job histories, 23 (64%) of the cases were classified to have had "definite" and an additional 5 (14%) with "possible" asbestos-exposed job histories. Asbestos-exposed job histories were represented mostly by plumbing and pipe fitting, insulating, and boiler and pipe insulating.
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