For many years, all of California’s domestic workers were excluded from the health and safety protections that covered employees in other industries.
Workers and their advocates have long sought to fix that. In 2021, a new law called for the state to establish a committee to develop policy recommendations and voluntary guidelines to protect nannies, house cleaners, caregivers and day laborers. To oversee that effort, they turned to the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
The program, known as LOHP, quickly got to work. Over the course of a year, staff led advisory committee meetings with employers, domestic workers, nonprofit advocates and health and safety experts. Together, they developed the nation’s first guidelines on best practices to prevent injuries and illness among domestic workers. Read the full story at UB Public Health.
