Health and safety organizing : OCAW's worker-to-worker health and safety training program
2001
11
4
349-374
chemical industry ; occupational safety and health ; petrochemical industry ; safety and health training ; trade union role ; workers participation
https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/NEW
English
Bibliogr.
"In 1987, the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW) was funded as one of the original eleven awardees of the Superfund Worker Training Program of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. the OCAW, with the Labor Institute, developed a hazardous waste worker and hazardous materials emergency responder health and safety training program that was specific to its members in the represented industries. A social history is developed to explore a union-led, worker health education intervention. The program sought to develop worker-trainers who would conduct the training, using the Small-Group Activity Method, participate in curriculum development, and ultimately use health and safety training as a vehicle for identifying, developing and mobilizing health and safety activists among the membership."
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