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Small Business Safety Guide

Getting Started – Identify the Problems

Work with your employees to identify problems.

The WOSHTEP Small Business Resources Packet includes a training guide for two short activities that will engage your employees in identifying and addressing hazards in their own workplace, including a Workplace Hazards Checklist. The packet also includes Tip Sheets for employees on topics of special concern to small businesses, such as preventing ergonomic injuries. In addition to the general packet appropriate for any small business, there are industry-specific packets for restaurants, janitorial services and dairy farmers.

Also see:

  • The TASH Checklist for the Worksite
  • TASH Understanding Job Hazards Factsheet
  • TASH Investigating Job Hazards Factsheet

Next: Getting Started – Develop Solutions

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We are a #publichealth program that promotes safe, healthy, & just workplaces through training, outreach, and research.

Each May, LOHP coordinates the Safe Jobs for Youth Each May, LOHP coordinates the Safe Jobs for Youth Month Campaign to raise awareness about protecting young workers on the job. As the summer job season approaches, many young people are entering the workforce for the very first time, likely without the information they need about their rights on the job, or how to stay safe at work. 

At youngworkers.org, we have resources that can help.  We have resources for young workers, parents, educators, and employers  Learn more:

https://youngworkers.org/safe-jobs-for-youth-month/

#SafeJobs4YouthMonth #SafeJobsForYouthMonth #YoungWorkers #KnowYourRights #sj4ym
#worksafety 

Image description: Photo cutout of two teen boys, one speaking into a microphone. Photo text reads: May is Safe Jobs for Youth Month. 
Photo: @joycexiphotography
In April we trained a powerful group of leaders sp In April we trained a powerful group of leaders spearheading SEIU's Workers United Laundry Division’s regional health and safety committees. They are preparing to negotiate with the employers and to bring information to their coworkers about their rights and how to take action on key hazards they face like high heat, chemicals, and repetitive motions doing hard and heavy work.  Industrial laundry workers are required to bend and reach to pull tangled heaps of heavy linens, use harsh chemicals, and push carts weighing hundreds of pounds, all in extremely hot indoor temperatures.  @workersunited.west @seiuca  #workersafety  #workersrights 

Image descriptions:  A photo carousel of members of the laundry workers union gathering. Workers are gathered in small groups in discussion, laughing, and mapping out the safety hazards in their workplace on paper. workersrights

Hace un par de semanas, hicimos una una capacitación con un grupo de líderes poderosos a cargo de los comités regionales de salud y seguridad de la División de Lavandería de SEIU Workers United. Estos líderes se están preparando para negociar con sus empleadores y para dar información a sus compañeros de trabajo sobre sus derechos y qué hacer sobre riesgos que enfrentan como el calor extremo, los productos químicos y movimientos repetitivos haciendo trabajo pesado y difícil.  os trabajadores de lavanderías industriales tienen que agacharse y estirarse para jalar montones enredados de ropa y s’abanas, productos químicos fuertes y empujar carritos que pesan cientos de libras; todo  bajo temperaturas interiores extremadamente elevadas. @workersunited.west  #seguridadlabora  #derechosdelostrabajadores 

Descripciones de las imágenes: Un carrusel de fotos de miembros del SEIU Workers United. Los trabajadores se encuentran congregados en pequeños grupos, conversando, riendo y señalando en papel los riesgos de seguridad presentes en su lugar de trabajo.
All workers deserve to be safe at work. #SafeJobs All workers deserve to be safe at work.

#SafeJobs | #InternationalWorkersDay 

Image description: A group of workers smiling in front of three hanging posters that read "Safe Jobs, Healthy Lives." Blue Lettering reads "International Workers' Day. All Workers Deserve Safe Jobs and Healthy Lives," with the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program's logo centered at the bottom.
#safetyfirst #protectworkers #scuba Video descrip #safetyfirst #protectworkers #scuba  Video description:
Group of participants in a safety training wearing Tyvek suits dancing
All workers have the right to safe jobs and health All workers have the right to safe jobs and healthy lives. 

#SafeJobs | #WorkersMemorialDay 

Image descriptions:

1. A women stands in front of a slide that reads 'What is Worker's Memorial Day? 385 workers in the US die each day from hazardous working conditions." Text reads "Workers' Memorial Day Hold the Line for Safe Jobs"

2. Text reads "Each day over 380 workers are killed. Over 8,600 workers are injured and sick from dangerous conditions at work." A cutout of two workers in hazmat suits in the bottom right corner.

3. Text reads "Honor those who lost their lives from unsafe working conditions. Protect worker health & safety." Three lit candles are centered at the bottom  with the UC Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program logo.
Congrats to Jimena Rodriguez-Gamez @jimeena.rdz an Congrats to Jimena Rodriguez-Gamez @jimeena.rdz and Santiago Fuentes @sfuentess.__  who have both been accepted into the @ucberkeleypublichealth, MPH Environmental Health Sciences program! Both Jimena and Santiago joined us last summer as part of the Occupational Health Internship Program @ohip.aoec. OHIP interns learn about the field of occupational safety and health from those with most at stake: working people. Jimena and Santiago partnered with @liunalocal67 and the @cafastfoodunion, among others, and their achievements remind us how critical this program is to building the pipeline of leaders in occupational health & safety that we need in this moment. 🎉 

#nextgen #PublicHealth #workersrights
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