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For
Labor and Community Groups . . .
Tools
of the Trade—A Health & Safety Handbook for Action
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Unions
and community groups can integrate workplace health and
safety into every aspect of their work.
Our new
180-page Tools
of the Trade— A
Health and Safety Handbook for Action is a valuable resource
for those who want to promote worker health and safety while
building their organizations at
the same time.
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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
worker 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?
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.
180
pages, 2006, $25.00 (shipping included). Available
now.
Click
here for ordering information.
Click
here to see a flyer describing the book (PDF format).
What
Labor and Community Leaders Say About the Book
"Tools
of the Trade is an indispensable action guide for mobilizing
workers, unions, and communities in the fight to advance safety
and health for workers and build stronger unions."
Bill
Kojola, Department of Occupational Safety and Health, AFL-CIO
"This
book has everything a health-and-safety activist needs in an
easy-to-follow format. I especially like the sample surveys,
letters, and checklists. ... No one will have an excuse for not
working on health and safety now!"
Jane
Slaughter, Labor Notes
"Tools
of the Trade is the most compelling and comprehensive tool
book I have even seen. ... If we had this publication before
our recent campaign, my life would have been much easier."
Amber
Chan, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
"An exemplary
US resource spelling out health and safety organising
strategies, including how health
and safety campaigns can involve,
educate, activate and empower
workers while attracting public
support."
Hazards magazine (UK)
"We need
books like Tools
of the Trade. ... Packed with examples
of successful workplace health and safety campaigns, and strategies
for engaging workers in fighting for their own protection. It's
LabourStart's book of the week— order copies for everyone
in your union who needs to know how to win on health and safety
issues."
LabourStart
website
"Tools
of the Trade is more than just your regular health
and safety manual full of good information about workplace hazards.
It focuses on how to ... organize for change. Some of the most
frustrating and frequent questions I get are from workers who are
facing hazards, but don't know what to do -- because their union
leaders don’t know what to do or they're not union members
or because OSHA's not helping or because their issues aren't covered
by OSHA standards. ... This publication makes my life a lot easier.
It's full of information, helpful hints and practical, useful tools."
Jordan
Barab, Confined Space weblog
"When
the garbage recycling workers were fighting for union recognition,
they identified health and safety as one of their key concerns.
We used many of the activities in Tools of the Trade.
These efforts really gave a boost to the campaign and effectively
put health and safety on the table and out to allies in the community.
Believe me, this book is a valuable tool for workers and their
union."
Bill
Feyling, Carpenters 46 Northern California Counties Conference
Board
"Taking
action on health and safety ... will provide protection for the
janitorial workers and their families in our program. Tools
of the Trade can be utilized in the collaborative efforts
between responsible businesses and our SEIU members. Thank you!"
Alison
Webber, Building Skills Partnership
"We have
used these tools ... over the years with safety committees, stewards
and other union activists. They are now using them at meetings
and in campaigns to organize new members. Thanks to LOHP for
putting it all in one book."
Jackie
Nowell, United Food and Commercial Workers
"Tools
of the Trade is a great complement to our work at MassCOSH.
We believe that health and safety organizing needs to be done
in a way that links workers to unions and community allies, develops
workers' leadership skills, and offers them a collective voice
on the job. This workbook will be a valuable resource for workers,
trade unionists and community activists."
Marcy
Goldstein-Gelb, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational
Safety and Health
"The hardest
part about improving health and safety on the job is motivating
workers to become activists. This book will be a great resource.
It gives practical advice that's easy to follow and real life
examples that show you can make a difference."
Scott
Schneider, Laborers Health and Safety Fund of North America
"This
education and organizing ... workbook is a must-have whenever
workers need to address health, safety, and environmental justice
issues at the frontline (in the plant) and at the fenceline (the
community)."
Jose Bravo,
The Just Transition Alliance
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