TY - BOOK T1 - Tools of the Trade: A Health and Safety Handbook for Action Y1 - 2006 A1 - Lee, P. T. A1 - Regina S. Baker A1 - Darling, G. KW - worker health KW - worker safety KW - workers’ rights AB -

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)

PB - Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California CY - Berkeley, CA L2 - eng ER -