Kevin Riley

Kevin Riley is the Director at LOSH, where he oversees the center’s broad portfolio of worker training, participatory research, and capacity building initiatives. He has nearly two decades of experience in the occupational health field, having served in prior roles as LOSH Research Director and Program Director for the NIEHS-funded Western Region Universities Consortium (WRUC). Kevin’s research has examined the injury experiences of workers in the low-wage labor market, community-level associations between heat-related hospitalizations and outdoor work, and working conditions for residential day laborers and domestic workers. His interests also include the history of occupational safety and health policy advocacy.

Kevin teaches a course on worker health within the Fielding School of Public Health and the UCLA Labor Studies Program. He has served on advisory committees for the California Department of Industrial Relations, the National Occupational Research Agenda, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the National Clearinghouse for Worker Safety and Health Training, and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics.

He holds a PhD in sociology and a master’s in public health, both from UCLA.

Selected Publications:

Linda Delp, Brian Cole, Gabriel Lozano, and Kevin Riley. Worker injuries in Southern California’s warehousing industry: How to better protect workers in this burgeoning industry. New Solutions, 31:2, 2021.

Kevin Riley and Rosario Majano. Using workers’ compensation claims to investigate occupational injuries among residential day laborers and domestic workers. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 64:358-368, 2021.

Elizabeth Fussell, Linda Delp, Kevin Riley, Sergio Chávez, and Abel Valenzuela. Implications of social and legal status on immigrants’ health in disaster zones. American Journal of Public Health, 108(12), 1617-1620, 2018.

Kevin Riley, Holly Wilhalme, Linda Delp, and David P. Eisenman. Mortality and morbidity during extreme heat events and prevalence of outdoor work: An analysis of community-level data from Los Angeles County, California. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(4), 580-591, 2018.

Kevin Riley, Jennifer Nazareno, and Sterling Malish. 24-Hour Care: Work and Sleep Conditions among Migrant Filipino Live-in Caregivers in Los Angeles. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 59(12), 1120-1129, 2016.

Kevin Riley and Doug Morier. Patterns of Work-Related Injury and Common Injury Experiences of Workers in the Low-Wage Labor Market. Report to the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, California Department of Industrial Relations. Los Angeles: UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program. 2015.

Kevin Riley, Carol Rice, Mitchel Rosen, Craig Slatin, Linda Alerding, Jane Fleishman, B. Louise Weidner, and Linda Delp. Managers’ Perceptions of the Value and Impact of HAZWOPER Worker Health and Safety Training. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 58(7): 780-787, 2015.

Linda Delp and Kevin Riley. Worker engagement in the health and safety regulatory arena under changing models of worker representation. Labor Studies Journal, 40(1): 54-83, 2015.

Kevin Riley. Driving on speed: Long-haul truck drivers and amphetamines in the postwar period. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 11(4): 63-90, 2014.

Linda Delp, Kevin Riley, Sarah Jacobs, Diane Bush, Kathy Kirkland, Ingrid Denis, Matt London, and Robert Harrison. Shaping the future: Ten years of the Occupational Health Internship Program. New Solutions, 23(2) 253-281, 2013.

Kevin Riley. Health and safety. Entry for SAGE Sociology of Work Encyclopedia, Vicki Smith and J. Geoffrey Golson (eds.), 2013.

Kevin Riley, Linda Delp, Deogracia Cornelio, and Sarah Jacobs. From agricultural fields to urban asphalt: The role of worker education to promote California’s Heat Illness Prevention Standard. New Solutions, 22(3) 297-323, 2012.

Paul Landsbergis, Joseph Grzywacz, Anthony LaMontagne, Carles Muntaner, Joan Benach, Jane Lipscomb, Jeffrey Johnson, Peter Schnall, Kevin Riley, Ellen Rosskam, and Jennifer Zelnick. Work Organization, Job Insecurity, and Occupational Health Disparities. Issue Paper for Discussion at the Eliminating Health and Safety Disparities at Work Conference, Chicago, Illinois, September 14 and 15, 2011.

Kevin Riley and Lauren Appelbaum. OSHA at 40: Looking Back, Looking Ahead. UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Research & Policy Brief No. 8, April 2011.