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Session: History of Occupational Safety and Health: Does the OSHA Paradigm Work in the 21st Century? An Activist Dialogue
3439.0: Monday, November 06, 2006: 8:30 PM-10:00 PM
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History of Occupational Safety and Health: Does the OSHA Paradigm Work in the 21st Century? An Activist Dialogue
A convergence of labor, environmental, and social forces brought OSHA into being 36 years ago. A cohort of occupational health practitioners and activists grew with OSHA over the years of its existence forming a movement in which APHA played a key role. Dramatic economic, political, technological, and social shifts of recent decades have presented daunting challenges to the OSHA paradigm and the safety and health movement. Incipient efforts to rethink and reformulate our approaches to worker health and safety protection are simmering in communities around the country. This session will highlight the major questions facing these efforts in terms of: - What are the priority areas of safety and health in the current and future work environment? - What does the current political economic climate mean for organizing on occupational safety and health? - What lessons from earlier stages of the safety and health movement are relevant to current struggles and where do we need to find new models? - What are the roles of health professionals, union activists and leaders, environmental and other community organizations in advancing these new models? The session will feature a presentation of an in-progress assessment of activist thinking on these questions and ample opportunity for dialogue with participants on these important issues.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe priority areas of safety and health in the current and future work environment 2. Assess the current political economic climate for organizing on occupational safety and health 3. Discuss the lessons from earlier stages of the safety and health movement that are relevant to current struggles 4. Describe are the roles of health professionals, union activists and leaders, environmental and other community organizations in advancing these new models
Organizer(s):Steven Hecker
Leslie A. Nickels
Moderator(s):Steven Hecker
Facilitator(s):Leslie Nickels
8:30 PMDoes the OSHA Paradigm Work for the 21st Century?
Michael Silverstein, MD, MPH
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by:APHA-International Human Rights Committee; Public Health Nursing; Socialist Caucus; Vietnam Caucus
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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