WORKPLACE SAFETY
AFL-CIO Workplace Safety
You have the
right to a safe job—your job isn't supposed to injure, kill or maim. But each
year more than 6 million U.S. workers are injured or become sick on the job,
50,000 U.S. workers die from occupational illness and nearly 6,000 are killed on
the job.
The union movement continues to lead the fight for and
win job safety protections that improve the lives of all workers. That fight
continues every day in our workplaces, in the legislatures where laws are
enacted and in the offices of government regulators whose duty it is to protect
our work environment and keep us safe.
This special AFL-CIO job safety and health website is
designed to help all workers learn about their rights. It also provides the
latest job safety and health information and resources for union and nonunion
workers, local union safety representatives and job safety and health
professionals.
Visit the home page at:
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/safety/index.cfm
These are just some of the subjects covered:
Workers' Rights
Safety & Health at Work
Ergonomics
Workers' Compensation
More Safety & Health Issues
Safety & Health Toolbox
Need more information on health and safety?
This link is to the AFL-CIO web page
linking you to more than 200 other health and safety web sites of unions,
organizations, special task forces, government, workers compensation and states:
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/safety/tools/infolink.cfm
The Maine Labor Group on Health
The purpose of the Maine Labor Group on Health website is to
make it easy for Maine workers to access information about occupational safety
and health over the internet. This website is a helpsite which will primarily
link other organizations, government agencies and information all together for
the user. If you have problems or questions about worker safety and health or
workplace safety please contact the Maine Labor Group on Health.
For Details>>>>>>>
Workers at Risk
:
The Dangers on the Job
When the Regulators Don’t Try Very Hard
An Interview with Margaret Seminario
Margaret Seminario is the Director of the Occupational Safety & Health for
the AFL-CIO, where she has been since 1977.
Read the interview
>>>>>
Occupational
Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
This is the official OSHA web site. OSHA's mission is to ensure safe
and healthful workplaces in America. Since the agency was created in 1971,
workplace fatalities have been cut in half and occupational injury and illness
rates have declined 40 percent. At the same time, U.S. employment has doubled
from 56 million workers at 3.5 million worksites to 111 million workers at 7
million sites. The site has full information on laws and regulations, rights of
workers, state programs, cooperative programs, statistics and details on various
types of workplace hazards.
http://www.osha.gov/
The National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) is the federal agency responsible for conducting research and
making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and
illness. NIOSH is part of the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the
Department of Health and Human Services.
The
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 created both NIOSH and the
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). OSHA is in the U.S.
Department of Labor and is responsible for developing and enforcing
workplace safety and health regulations. NIOSH is in the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services and is an agency established to help assure
safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by
providing research, information, education, and training in the field of
occupational safety and health.
Try the NIOSH site at:
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html
You can get an idea of what is
available from the following partial list:
Chemical Safety
Includes:
Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards(NPG),
NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods(NMAM),
International Chemical Safety Cards(ICSCs)
Emergency Response Resources
Includes:
Chemical Agent Information,
Preparedness for Business,
Emergency Responders
Respirators
Includes:
CBRN NIOSH Approved Respirators,
User
Notices,
Selection,
Certification
Traumatic Injuries
Includes:
Electrical Safety,
Agricultural Safety,
Falls,
Construction,
Occupational Violence
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Includes:
Ergonomics Programs and Interventions,
Lifting,
Back Belts
Health Care Workers
Includes:
Bloodborne
Pathogens and Needlesticks,
Violence,
Psychosocial Hazards
Agriculture
Includes:
National
Agricultural Safety Database (NASD)
Construction
Includes:
Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (eLCOSH)
Mining Safety and Health Research
Includes:
Toolbox,
Training,
Mining Publications,
Mining Data and Statistics
All
Occupational Safety and Health Topics
Workplace
Violence DOL
This is the U.S. Department of labor web site devoted entirely
to Workplace Violence. Violence in the workplace is a serious safety and
health issue. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the third-leading cause
of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there
were 639 workplace homicides in 2001 in the United States, out of a total
of 8,786 fatal work injuries . A total of 2,886 work-related fatalities
resulted from the events of September 11th. Excluding these fatalities,
the overall workplace fatality count was 5,900 for 2001.
http://www.osha-slc.gov/SLTC/workplaceviolence/
Ergonomics Information
Injury from repetitive motion is one of the most serious and largest types
of workplace injury. This is the AFL-CIO web page on the subject.
Go to the home page for more information:
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/safety/ergo/
This is just a little of the
information available:
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