| Title | Tools of the Trade: A Health and Safety Handbook for Action |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | Lee, P. T., Baker, Regina S., and Darling, G. |
| Publisher | Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California |
| City | Berkeley, CA |
| Keywords | worker health, worker safety, workers’ rights |
| Abstract | Health and safety campaigns can involve, educate, activate, and empower workers while attracting public support. The book has practical suggestions for forming a worker health and safety committee in a union or non-union environment; training workers; using risk mapping, surveys, and workplace inspections to find hazards; using questionnaires and body mapping to identify worker health problems; requesting safety information from the employer under “right to know” regulations; filing OSHA complaints; negotiating safety in union contracts; and gaining community support for workplace health and safety campaigns. None of the tools require “experts” in health and safety; all can be learned and used by workers, union representatives, and other activists. (publisher’s statement) |
