Examples of Training For Action

Strippers Organizing for

Safe Workplaces

Partnered with Strippers United to deliver a series of workshops as part of a broader organizing campaign for workers to exercise their power and stand up for their rights.

Hazardous Waste and

Emergency Response

Trained 313 participants through 16 different trainings with the Cypress Mandela Training Center, a construction pre-apprenticeship training program in east Oakland. Trainings included the 24-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations courses plus others on COVID-19, noise, and silica.

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Domestic Workers and Day Laborers

SB321 advisory committee: Employment Safety Standards Advisory Committee: Household Domestic Services. Facilitated meetings, provided technical assistance, and drafted industry-specific occupational health and safety guidelines and a report with policy recommendations to protect the health and safety of domestic workers and day laborers, in collaboration with Committee members and staff from the Department of Industrial Relations and Cal/OSHA
COVID-19 prevention training with day laborers, collaborating with centers including Street Level Health Project, Graton Day Labor Center, Day Worker Center of Mountain View, and San Francisco Day Labor Program
New grant! Awarded OSHA Harwood Training Grant to partner with the California Domestic Workers Coalition in a train-the-trainer and leadership development program, with the goal of then training workers and employers on domestic worker hazards

Janitors

Two research studies with SEIU-USWW – to assess and determine safe and effective workloads, and to understand chemical product use as part of a broader assessment of occupational risk factors for breast cancer
Workplace violence prevention and safe use of chemicals – Developed a 2-hour worker training and trained staff and worker leaders from Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund to deliver it to non-union janitors

Youth and Schools

Keeping Students Safe on the Job: New project to train teachers in Career Technical Education, Career Pathway and Workability programs across California and prepare them to lead activities on health and safety – drawing on the NIOSH Talking Safety at Work curriculum
Safe Jobs for Youth Month – Coordinated the month-long campaign in May and created a new resource for small busines s es in response to a young worker fatality in California.
Young Worker Leadership Academy – The 2022 Hybrid YWLA hosted high school teams from around the state, each of which completed a community project to raise awareness about workplace health and safety among their peers.

Engaging Students

Social Justice and Worker Health – taught semester-long class with graduate students in the School of Public Health and Goldman School of Public Policy
Occupational Health Internship Program – mentored students in two projects: cannabis workers with UFCW & restaurant workers with ROC the Bay

New Resources

Featuring five video stories and practical tools, these resources provide examples of the range of strategies and actions workers and organizations can take to address and improve health and safety. The five stories depict efforts and creative strategies featuring workers in agriculture, fast food, food processing, restaurants and retail.