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The article explores the fall protection in residential roofing. It cites the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (BLS) reports that 442 construction worker fatalities in 2007 due to falls. It notes that roofers argued that fall protection was limited to roofing work which is a burden to roofers' businesses and is costly. The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) developed Instruction STD 3.1 which protects workers and reduces the financial burden on companies. It mentions that one of the simplest methods to get workers a fall protection equipment is to make it comfortable. It cited the concerns in residential roofing which needs more attentiveness including homemade systems and environmental hazards.

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a rapid increase in the amount of information about the disease and SARS-CoV-2 on the internet. If the language used in video messages is not clear or understandable to deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people with a high school degree or less, this can cause confusion and result in information gaps among DHH people during a health emergency.Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between DHH people's perception of the effectiveness of physical distancing and contagiousness of an asymptomatic person.Methods: This is a cross-sectional survey study on DHH people's perceptions about COVID-19 (N=475). Items pertaining to COVID-19 knowledge were administered to US deaf adults from April 17, 2020, to May 1, 2020, via a bilingual American Sign Language/English online survey platform.Results: The sample consisted of 475 DHH adults aged 18-88 years old, with 74% (n=352) identifying as White and 54% (n=256) as female. About 88% (n=418) of the sample felt they knew most things or a lot about physical distancing. This figure dropped to 72% (n=342) for the question about the effectiveness of physical distancing in reducing the spread of COVID-19 and 70% (n=333) for the question about the contagiousness of an infected person without symptoms. Education and a knowledge of the effectiveness of physical distancing significantly predicted knowledge about the contagiousness of an asymptomatic individual. Race, gender, and age did not emerge as significant predictors.Conclusions: This results of this study point to the strong connection between education and coronavirus-related knowledge. Education-related disparities can be remedied by making information fully accessible and easily understood during emergencies and pandemics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]