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CPWR Highlights: New Labor Safety Liaisons

CPWR, the Center for Construction Research and Training, has “highlighted” our “enlaces de seguridad” project in their year end review , “Highlights 2011: Stories of Impact.” It includes a case study of how the enlaces critically assessed how to confront an unsafe scaffold which included a prioritize call to OSHA. Check out [...]

CPWR Impact “Empowering Day Laborers to Work Safely in Construction”

The Center for Construction Research and Training has recognized New Labor’s workplace health and safety work as an exemplary model in training. In its “Impact” card, CPWR describes New Labor working with Rutger OTEC to”understand day laborers’ health and safety needs and develop Spanish-language training to help workers protect themselves and co-workers on the [...]

Temp Worker Conference

On Saturday, April 24, 100 temp agency workers in the state of New Jersey gathered to discuss the many problems that they face in there line of work. The participants indentified a number of grave health and safety dangers, both at their worksites and in the transportation that they are forced to utilize. They also [...]

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Worker Training

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The goal of LOSHI is to offer quality and cost effective health and safety training in Spanish to Latino workers. By working with employers, unions, community organizations, and communities of faith, LOSHI has developed site-specific health and safety programs and has trained more than 100 worker-trainers.

Through this process, LOSHI has produced a number of training manuals focused on employment sectors in which there are significant concentrations of Latino workers. The following manuals are available online.

Construction Workers/Trabajadores en la Construccion

Warehouse Workers/Trabajadores de Warehouse/Almacen

Security Systems and Strategic Planning/Sistemas de Seguridad y Planificación Estratégica

Night Shift Workers/Trabajadores del Turno de la Noche

Danger at the Jobsite? Call OSHA

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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is responsible for developing obligatory health and safety norms, and for ensuring that these norms are followed through inspections, employer outreach programs, and fines and citations for violations.

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Don’t Rely on Only Divine Providence to Protect Yourself From Falls

Falls represent the greatest share of worker fatalities within the construction industry. Proper fall protection should eliminate the danger of falling, prevent falls, and ensure that workers who may fall do not severely injure themselves.

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Latinos Face A Higher Rate of Workplace Danger

Latinos have a higher risk of workplace death than all other workers in the U.S. More alarming, the rate of occupational fatality for latino workers born outside of the U.S. is 44 percent higher than the overall average.