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–High Road: Worker Voice for Health and Safety
LOHP partnered with UC Berkeley’s Labor Center and the state’s High Road Training Partnership (HRTP) initiative to provide guidance and training resources to High Road Training Partnerships throughout the state. These online resources can help workforce development programs assess and strengthen their health and safety training and approach, and include the following: LOHP works to support high road occupational safety and…
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–Sexual Harassment Training – Janitors
LOHP worked with the Department of Industrial Relations, SEIU-USWW, the Ya Basta Coalition, and Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund to develop a a model training program for workers and supervisors in the janitorial industry. This training is required by AB 1978 – which mandates sexual harassment training for all janitors and their supervisors. The curriculum includes interactive and popular education techniques…
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–Workers with Disabilities – Curriculum
Staying Safe at Work Curriculum — A Safety and Health Curriculum for Workers with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Staying Safe at Work is a six-lesson training program designed to teach basic occupational safety and health knowledge and skills to young and older workers, and students with disabilities. The first version of the Staying Safe at…
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–Young Workers: Talking Safety
The new Youth@Work–Talking Safety is a fun, free and engaging curriculum that helps teachers and school/community-based job placement staff educate young people about the basics of job safety and health. The curriculum presents essential information and career-readiness skills through a focus on eight core competencies. Originally developed by LOHP and other partners for the National Institute…
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Cosmetology Curriculum
This curriculum presents a complete 20-hour course on health and safety hazards that barbers and cosmetologists face on the job. It includes complete lesson plans, instructor’s notes, classroom activities, and student handouts. There are 16 teaching modules, including Chemical Hazards, Material Safety Data Sheets, Ergonomics, Communicable Diseases, Laws and Agencies. There are also 10 factsheets…
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Health and Safety Training Kits
This LOHP curriculum is designed to help trainers facilitate informal classes of workers, environmental justice activists, or community residents using action-oriented, participatory methods. It is available in four languages, and was developed by LOHP in collaboration with the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice. The curriculum consists of two modules (or “kits”) bound…
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Human Factors: A Curriculum for Refinery Workers
This LOHP curriculum includes all the materials needed for a half-day course that introduces workers to human factors concepts. Human factors is a new way of thinking about workplace safety. While many traditional safety theories blame industrial accidents on worker error, human factors looks deeper. It tries to identify the underlying causes of past accidents…
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Janitorial Safety Training Materials
The Janitorial Safety Training Program is available for small business owners and managers who need to train janitorial employees working alone or in small teams to clean buildings. The training materials include a training guide, and focus on health and safety in the janitorial industry. Janitorial Safety Training Materials are available online in both English…
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Restaurant Safety Training Materials
A small business training program is currently available for owners and managers of small restaurants in California. The restaurant training materials are available to read or download in English and Spanish.
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Small Business Safety Training Materials
Small business safety training materials are currently available in English. All materials in the small business packet may be viewed or downloaded in PDF form below.
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Tailgate Training for California Construction Workers
California law requires regular health and safety training on construction sites. How effective is your “tailgate” training program? This LOHP guidebook can help construction foremen and other trainers conduct effective safety training sessions on the job. It has detailed lesson plans on 14 topics. Lessons are organized in an easy question-and-answer format that encourages…
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Young Workers: ESL High School Curriculum
This curriculum is designed for use in high school English as a Second Language (ESL) classes in rural communities. The nine lessons (and accompanying short video) present information on farm health and safety and workplace rights, while building English language skills. Activities are interactive, such as role plays, games, and interviews and also include…
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Young Workers: High School Curriculum
Designed by and for teachers, this curriculum presents the basics of workplace health and safety to young people in a lively and interesting way. It can be used in academic high school classes as well as in vocational and work experience programs. Three teaching units, each 3-5 hours in length, are for use in high…
