270751 From electroplating to green jobs: Health and safety training for workers with limited English literacy skills

Monday, October 29, 2012

Linda Delp, PhD, MPH , Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program (LOSH), University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Dinorah Barton-Antonio , Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Deogracia Cornelio, MA , Labor Occupational Safety & Health Program (LOSH), University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
The NIEHS-funded Western Region Universities Consortium has provided training for workers in the field of hazardous materials and waste for the past few decades. Consortium members at UCLA-LOSH and UC Berkeley LOHP have developed tools for training limited literacy workers, adapted materials for small electroplating businesses and trained workers for jobs in the construction, environmental remediation and green jobs arena. These include training day laborers in landscaping techniques that conserve water, using highly visual approaches to ladder safety, preventing falls and heat illness, and integrating green chemistry principles in Minority Worker Training Programs. Presenters will describe tools for training limited literacy and non-English speaking workers and will discuss successes and challenges in implementing programs that lead to worker empowerment.

Learning Areas:
Occupational health and safety

Learning Objectives:
Describe specific tools and approaches to educate workers with limited literacy skills. Demonstrate how these tools, techniques and approaches have been used in health and safety training and job training programs.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked in the health and safety field for over 20 years as an educator and researcher for labor, non-profit community and university-based programs. I teach occupational health in the UCLA School of Public Health Community Health Sciences Dept. and have published a book on popular education and occupational health articles in numerous journals.
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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