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

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:29:34 +0000

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 job”.

According to the “Impact” card, our project was a success because
- we tailored “this program to the unique needs of a hard-to-reach and transient group of workers.”
- “involving the target population and taking time to build trust ‘on the corner’ where workers gather
- learner-centered curriculum-development methods that involve day laborers in their own education and in their primary language

In the end, over 450 workers were trained, and 30 workers were trained as “lead trainers”. In addition the developed curriculum was implemented in conjunction with the University of Illinois-Chicago School of Public Health to give the training to worker centers in Chicago, Cincinnati, Houston, Austin, Memphis, Milwaukee and Houston while helping to build their capacity.

For more information see the CPWR Impact Card here

CPWR Highlights LOSHI Safety Liaisons

admin — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:29:39 +0000

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 the articles, on pgs 6 and 12-13, here: http://www.cpwr.com/highlights/highlight_pdfs/CPWRHighlights2011.pdf

Worker Training | Capacitación de Trabajadores

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:01:59 +0000

La meta de LOSHI es para proporcionar capacitación en español de la salud y de la seguridad ocupacional de calidad y eficaz de costo a los trabajadores Latinos. A través de trabajar con agencias de trabajo temporal, sindicatos y organizaciones de la comunidad y de la fé, LOSHI ha desarrollado programas de la salud y seguridad espécificos para sitios y ha entrenado más de 100 trabajadores-entrenadores.

Por medio de este proceso, LOSHI ha producido varios libros de capacitación enfocados en las areas de empleo en cuales trabajan trabajadores latinos en el EEUU. Los siguienetes libros estan dispondibles en linea.

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