3336.0 Dying on the job: Analysis and discussion of work-related fatalities

Monday, November 8, 2010: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
Session Objectives: * Describe the public health burden of workplace fatalities. * Discuss trends in fatalities, particularly disparities in fatal injury experience between Hispanic and non-Hispanic, immigrant and non-immigrant workers. * Explain how "green" jobs can present new and previously undescribed serious safety hazards on the job.
Moderator:
Katherine Kirkland, MPH

2:30pm
Fatalities Among Foreign-Born Workers in the U.S., 1992-2007
Cammie Chaumont Menéndez, PhD
     
2:45pm
Green jobs and worker fatalities: Causes and prevention. The California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program
Laura Styles, MPH, Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, Henri Cierpich, BS and James Rogge, MD, MPH
3:00pm
Fatal Occupational Injuries in Oil and Gas Extraction Industries: Comparing Outcomes of Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Workers
Jill Janocha and Scott Richardson
     
3:15pm
Changing skilled trades health and safety culture from within to reduce the risk of fatalities
Katherine King, MS, PE, BCEE, Judith Daltuva, MA, MSW, Monroe Keyserling, PhD, CSP, CPE and Thomas Robins, MD, MPH
     

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Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Social Work

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

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