LOHP’s lively, interactive training programs, offered in several languages, encourage participants to take action to improve safety conditions in the workplace. With funding from federal and state government agencies, private foundations, or on a fee-for-service basis, LOHP provides training programs, develops written materials, and offers technical assistance to groups of workers, labor unions, community organizations, employers, health care professionals and others from a variety of occupations and industries, all with the aim of promoting safe and healthful workplaces and reducing work-related injuries and illnesses. LOHP’s training programs are skills based, action-oriented and focus on empowering workers -- out of a recognition that the employees doing the work are in the best position to recognize hazards and identify solutions. LOHP is particularly interested in working with labor-management groups and community organizations that serve vulnerable, underserved workers.
Examples of current training projects include:
- The Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program (WOSHTEP), funded by the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation. Click here.
- The Hazardous Waste Project, funded by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Click here.
- The School Action for Safety and Health (SASH) program, funded by the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation. Click here.
- Workers with Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. Click here.
For more information about our Training for Action activities, please contact Laura Stock .
lstock@berkeley.edu
You can also find contact information for the Project Coordinators leading each of the above projects on the pages describing those projects.