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Session: Empowering Underserved Workers through Occupational Health and Safety Training
4243.0: Tuesday, November 07, 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
Empowering Underserved Workers through Occupational Health and Safety Training
This session will consist of five presentations each about dealing with a different population and addresses unique challenges involved in developing and providing effective, empowering health and safety education. Discussion will draw on the experience of attendees to explore innovative and effective methods of training underserved workers. Presentations: 1. Contextualizing workplace health and safety education: Meeting the social and cultural needs of immigrant workers. Addresses obstacles and successes based on experiences with immigrant workers in Los Angeles, including garment, hotel and laundry workers, janitors and day laborers. 2. Providing health and safety education for low literacy spanish-speaking agricultural pesticide applicators in Washington State. Addresses issues specific to agricultural workers, and innovative solutions for providing training to high hazard workers. 3. Overcoming barriers: Hazard communication training for school custodians in Tucson, Arizona. Describes wide ranging impact of the first Spanish training to school district workers, an often overlooked population. 4. A joint union project to deliver health and safety training to an underserved population. Spanish-speaking workers describe an effort to pool limited union resources to develop training materials and provide training to larger populations. 5. Training low-income minorities for environmental careers. Discusses challenges and lessons learned in providing job skills, technical and hazardous materials training for successful careers.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant will be able to: 1) identify obstacles that prevent underserved populations such as immigrants, non-English speakers, and people of color from working in a safe and healthy environment; 2) identify challenges to providing appropriate, effective training to underserved workers; 3) describe the outcomes from providing such training in a safe, supportive environment; and 4) recognize the empowering effects of such training that reach far beyond the actual knowledge gained.
Organizer(s):Marian R. Flum, ScD
Moderator(s):Marian R. Flum, ScD
2:30 PMEmpowering underserved workers through occupational health and safety training
Marian R. Flum, ScD, Deogracia Cornelio, MA, Flor Servin, BA, Luis Vazquez, MPH, Paula A. Paris, MMHS, Linda Delp, MPH
2:35 PMContextualizing workplace health and safety education: Meeting the social and cultural needs of immigrant workers  [ Recorded presentation ]
Deogracia Cornelio, MA, Linda Delp, MPH
2:52 PMProviding health and safety education for low literacy Spanish-speaking agricultural pesticide applicators in Washington state
Flor Servin, BA
3:09 PMOvercoming barriers: Hazard communication training for school custodians
Marian R. Flum, ScD, Amy K. Mock, MPH
3:26 PMA Joint Union Project to Deliver Health and Safety Training to an Underserved Population - Spanish-speaking Workers  [ Recorded presentation ]
Luis Vazquez, MPH, John S. Morawetz, Amy K. Mock, MPH
3:43 PMTraining Low Income Minorities for Environmental Careers
Paula A. Paris, MMHS
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by:Labor Caucus; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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