NEWS
2013 Workers' Memorial Week of Action
UCLA-LOSH is co-sponsoring the 2013 Workers Memorial Day Commemoration, Thursday, April 25, 2013, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Click SoCalWorkersMemorialDay.org for more information.
Join us this year to advance health and safety rights for workers.
Marlom Portillo, Executive Director of IDEPSCA, has been honored with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders Award. LOSH and IDEPSCA have partnered for the past decade, building capacity among immigrant workers to help ensure safe and healthy working conditions for ALL workers. Congratulations Marlom!
The LOSH Minority Worker Training Program is highlighted in the "Focus on Worker Heatlh and Safety Training" report from the 2012 Good Jobs Green Jobs regional conferences.
Click here to view.
LOSH staff Kevin Riley, Linda Delp, Deogracia Cornelio and Sarah Jacobs recently published article in the journal New Solutions describes worker training efforts in Southern California. The article focuses on training created and carried out (much of it by LOSH) for the California Heat Illness Prevention Campaign. Click here to view the article.
LOSH’s Summer 2012 Newsletter includes articles on the ongoing fight for warehouse workers’ rights; the 2012 Action Summit on Worker Safety and Health; OHIP interns working with labor, worker centers, clinics and community groups on groundbreaking campaigns; and more.
Heat safety is your right! Learn about California's Heat Illness Prevention Campaign.
SoCalCOSH and Worksafe released the 2nd annual "Dying at Work in California" report. It provides the latest estimates of deaths, injuries and illnesses in the workplace during 2011, and profiles the people affected and the enormous impact these events have on the people of California.
Founded in 1978, LOSH is a nationally recognized center promoting safe workplaces through teaching and education, research, and policy advocacy.
LOSH collaborates with workers, unions, community organizations, employers, academics, students, governmental representatives, and health professionals. Initiatives include health and safety training and education for low-income, minority, immigrant and young workers; public advocacy; and participation in industry-wide research relating to occupational and environmental health policy issues in California.
Over one thousand workers receive training annually in a region incorporating two-thirds of California's workforce. LOSH staff includes a multi-ethnic, bilingual group of professionals with backgrounds in public health, participatory adult education, curriculum development, social work, public policy, and quantitative and qualitative research methods.
LOSH is a subunit of UCLA's Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH)
Peter Riley (Cal/OSHA), Tanya Akel (UCLA-LOSH), Linda Delp (Director, UCLA-LOSH), Debra Lee (Cal/OSHA), and Hasan Adan (Cal/OSHA) at the "Action Summit on Worker Safety & Health" held in Los Angeles on April 26, 2012.
2012 Occupational Health Intership Program (OHIP) interns and staff at the June 19-21 National Orientation held at UCLA.
TRAININGS
Hazardous Waste or
Emergency Response
40-Hour Course
Training Schedule
July 9-13, 2012
August 20-24, 2012
October 15-19, 2012
January 28 - Feb. 1, 2013
March 25-29, 2013 CANCELLED
May 13-17, 2013 CLOSED
July 15-19, 2013
Hazardous Waste or
Emergency Response
8-Hour Annual Refresher
Training Schedule
June 21, 2012
September 13, 2012
November 15, 2012
February 21, 2013
April 18, 2013
June 20, 2013
WOSHTEP
Young Worker Leadership Academy
February 7-9, 2013
Berkeley, CA
OM Contracting (Spanish)
February 15-16, 2013
Coachella, CA
CLASS IS FULL
School Action for Safety and Health (SASH) Program
(click on the date to access the registration form)
EXACT DATE TBD
For further information contact Sarah Jacobs @ (310) 295-8273
loshinfo@ucla.edu
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(310) 794-6403 (fax)
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Los Angeles, CA 90095
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