3139.0 Blue / Green #2: Making green jobs safe jobs **Special intersectional track on environmental justice and occupational justice**

Monday, November 8, 2010: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: Assess the evolving health and safety risks to workers between the intersection of green jobs and their work. Identify both recent improvements and continued gaps in prevention and protection of workers.
Moderator:
Walter Jones, MSc, CIH

10:30am
Intersection of Occupational Health & Safety with Green Jobs
James Frederick, MS, Joseph Hughes, MPH, Julie Beth Zimmerman, PhD, MS, Michael P. Wilson, PhD, MPH and John S. Morawetz, ScM
     
10:50am
Creation of Model Safety and Health Training for Green Jobs
Joseph Hughes, MPH, John S. Morawetz and James Frederick, MS
     
11:10am
Union and community based training inititatives for green economy jobs: A comparision of two training projects
Anna Fendley, MPH and James Frederick, MS
     
11:30am
Moderator Intro -- Walter Jones
11:50am
A multiple stakeholder evaluation of green construction training: Assessing the effectiveness of green courses for minority workers
Sue Ann Sarpy, MS, PhD and Kizetta Vaughn
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Environment, Epidemiology, Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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