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Lista de Los Recursos Españoles de Seguridad y de la Salud
This list was compiled by Marilyn M. Velez, Compliance Assistance Specialist of the Atlanta-West OSHA Area Office. This is not a comprehensive list. The purpose of this list is to provide you with the name, mailing and/or internet addresses of some organizations that have developed good quality Spanish safety and health resources. The majority of the publications can be downloaded from their web page free of charge.
1. Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health (eLCOSH) This web site has non-English materials in six languages: Creole, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. They have Tailgate/Toolbox Talks, Hazard Alerts, Worker Pocket Cards/Brochures, Spanish-English Construction Dictionary, Instructor= Manual, photos, and other resources. In addition, they have a list (with web page links) of safety and health resources in Spanish from labor organizations, universities, occupational health clinic, COSH groups/community groups (most of these organizations are located in California, New York, and Washington). Great web page!
2. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) This web site has Spanish information on several topics, such as: Allergic reactions to latex, Stress at work, Needlestick prevention, Silicosis prevention, Youth workers, Hearing conservation, Hot environments, Trash collectors, Dry cleaning industry, Spray painting at a car repair shop, among others. This web site also provides many links to web sites of other agencies, organizations or groups that contained Spanish safety and health resources.
3. Alice Hamilton Occupational Health Center This center received an OSHA grant to develop training materials in Spanish. They developed training manuals on the following topics: ARight-to Know@, Asbestos removal, Employer and worker guide to hazardous materials in the construction industry, English-as-a-Second Language guide that uses occupational safety and health as its subject matter, Lead paint, among others. You can order them for a small fee.
4. United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) UFCW has several brochures and fact sheets on the following topics: musculoskeletal disorders, ergonomic, noise, hot environments, workers rights, ammonia exposure, sodium hypochlorite exposure, and dry ice exposure. UFCW has a publication named AMeatpacking, Poultry and Food Processing: A Safety Committee Guide for the Workplace@. This guide briefly covers a variety of safety, health and biological hazards present at the meatpacking, poultry and food processing industries.
5. UNITE! UNITE has Spanish fact sheets, booklets, posters, and manuals on the following topics: back belts, carpal tunnel syndrome, dust, fire, formaldehyde, hazard communication, heat, housekeeping & sanitation, noise, solvents, A workers= guide to job design, fire prevention & safety in garment factories, right-to-know, ergonomic, safe stacks (warehouse safety), chemical hazards. UNITE may charge a small fee for some of these items ($1.00/copy).
6. UCLA-LOSH Program The UCLA-LOSH Spanish Resource Library has compiled Spanish language training materials about occupational health and safety for workers, trainers, as well as their employers, and health professionals. The aim of the program is to have materials at easy access to Spanish-speaking workers. You can go to their web site to download a copy of their second edition of the AWorkers= Sourcebook/La Fuente Obrera A. Great resource!
7. AFL-CIO Health and Safety Department The AFL-CIO has Spanish safety and health materials about ergonomic, workers compensation, workers= rights, among others.
8. NY Safety Organization The majority of their resources are available at their web site. Materials are divided by hazards and occupations.
9. Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), UC-Berkeley Great library! The library resources are open to the public free of charge! Great web page!
10. National Association of Home Builders AManual de Seguridad en el Lugar de Trabajo@ (Safety Manual in the Workplace). Pretty good brochure!
11. NICDC Information Clearinghouse They have materials about hearing conservation, among other topics.
12. The National Network of Committees on Occupational Safety and Health The National COSH Network web page is under construction. Tom O=Connor has a pretty extensive list of Spanish safety and health resources. I currently have a lot of the material that Mr. O'Connor will have on his web page. If you want copies of them you can e-mail Mr. O=Connor or you can e-mail me, marilyn.velez@osha.gov, .
13. Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets (New Jersey Fact Sheets) The state of New Jersey=s Right-to-Know program has a good collection of very readable fact sheets in Spanish on hazardous chemicals. 14. New Website of the National Network of Committees on Occupational Safety and Health http://www.coshnetwork.org This new website offers a wide range of useful resources and links for worker safety and health activists with a particular focus on:
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