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![]() 163752 What strategies help workers win effective health and safety changes?Tuesday, November 6, 2007
It's one thing to know what needs to be changed to improve health and safety in your workplace. It's another thing to get those changes. Yes, it makes a difference if you're in a unionised environment. But the “how” is still difficult. Whether it's public health in general or worker's occupational health and safety in particular, strategies (the how to) and solutions (the goals) are often confused. How do we separate them? What's the place for economic arguments? How do you build a “case”? Who should be involved and how? This is an opportunity for health and safety activists, popular labour educators, and those working with them, to brainstorm and learn about the experience of others in pressing for health and safety changes. Participants will share and practice using specific tools, methods and processes in facilitated small group discussions and demonstrations. Examples will come from Canadian and U.S. experiences. At the end of the workshop/discussion, participants will list other resources and strategies that may be useful in developing “the case” for meaningful preventive health and safety solutions.
Learning Objectives: Keywords: Occupational Safety, Union
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Any relevant financial relationships? No I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.
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