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Unions
and community organizations can integrate safety into every aspect
of their work. LOHP offers a variety of publications and services
that can help.
Tools
of the Trade: A Health & Safety Handbook for Action
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Our
new 180-page Tools of the Trade is
a valuable resource for those who want to promote worker
health and safety while building their unions and community
groups at the same time.
This
is a practical, "how-to" resource
guide that answers such questions as:
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How
can unions and other worker advocates win this most basic
of workers rights, the right to return home safely from
a day's
work?
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How can
they engage the workers themselves in this process?
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How
can they integrate health and safety advocacy into all
aspects of their work?
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Health and
safety campaigns can involve, educate, activate, and empower
workers while attracting public support.
The book has
practical suggestions for forming a worker health and safety
committee in a union or non-union environment; training workers;
using risk mapping, surveys, and workplace inspections to find
hazards; using questionnaires and body mapping to identify
worker health problems; requesting safety information from the
employer under "right to know" regulations;
filing OSHA complaints; negotiating safety in union contracts;
and gaining community support for workplace health and safety campaigns.
None of the tools require "experts" in
health and safety; all can be learned and used by workers, union representatives,
and other activists.
Tools of
the Trade includes:
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Examples
of successful workplace health
and safety campaigns from around the
country.
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Strategies
to actively engage workers in advocating
for their own protection.
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Specific tools
for winning safety improvements, such as collecting information,
using legal rights, and working with the community.
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Step-by-step
instructions for using these tools, complete with checklists,
forms, and resources.
Price
is $25.00 (shipping included). Available now.
Click
here for a full description and ordering information.
Click
here to see a flyer describing the book (PDF format).
Collective
Bargaining for Health & Safety
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Our
124-page Collective Bargaining for Health and Safety— A
Handbook for Unions is a valuable tool for members
of bargaining committees and other union representatives
who negotiate over health and safety issues.
The
heart of the book is an extensive collection of more
than 200 sample contract clauses negotiated by unions
throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Topics
range from rights and responsibilities of labor and management
to specific workplace hazards such as heavy lifting, chemicals,
noise, ergonomics, indoor air quality, infectious diseases,
workplace violence, and new technology.
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Training Programs
LOHP
can provide training on specific topics to unions and labor-management
groups on request. Training topics have ranged from hazard identification
and control to ergonomics, from building effective health and safety
committees to workers' rights.
Examples
of current projects include:
- Working
with a joint labor-management partnership at Kaiser hospitals
to develop a training program for worksite health and safety teams
- Helping
the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
(AFSCME), the California Nurses Association (CNA), and the University
Professional and Technical Employees (UPTE/CWA) to provide training
on health and safety committees
- Working
with the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California
(SBCTC) to design and conduct a "training of trainers"
program for construction workers.
For
more information on these projects or to discuss customized
training for your own organization, contact Laura Stock at LOHP: lstock@berkeley.edu.
Participatory
Research
LOHP
also works with unions to conduct joint research projects. Research
is participatory and involves rank-and-file workers in every aspect
of the project.
Recently
we worked with Hotel Employees/ Restaurant Employees (HERE)
Local 2 in San Francisco to study issues of workload, health,
and quality of life for hotel room cleaners. We helped conduct
a similar study in Las Vegas. These projects led to significant
contract improvements and are featured in our In
the Spotlight section. For more information, contact Pam
Tau Lee at LOHP: ptlee@berkeley.edu.
LOHP
has also worked with Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
Local 616 and NIOSH to study musculoskeletal injuries among
homecare workers and to identify risk factors and practical
solutions. This project is also described in our In
the Spotlight section. For more information, contact Laura
Stock at LOHP: lstock@berkeley.edu.
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