LOHP - Labor Occupational Health Program

Join us on 10/7 at noon to discuss the impact of AI on worker health and safety.

👉🏽 Register: https://tinyurl.com/coeh-webinar

Corporations are spending billions to integrate AI and automation technologies into workplaces that are rapidly reshaping how we work and live. How is US policy keeping up with these changes? How are workers encountering these new technologies in their workplaces and how can safety professionals apply existing tools to emerging hazards around AI. We will discuss AI in the workplace from each of these perspectives; recent laws, worker experiences and a conceptual framework for safety professionals.

This presentation by LOHP in collaboration with COEH is based on the Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program (WOSHTEP) administered by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation in the California Department of Industrial Relations through interagency agreements with the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley; the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at the University of California, Davis; and the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.

LOHP commemorates by honoring the history of worker struggles surrounding the holiday, and fighting for workers’ health and safety rights today.

Today we are supporting workers to make their workplaces safer through training, research and developing multilingual materials. All workers deserve safe jobs and healthy lives. ✨✨

LOHP's work is featured as one of 12 research teams at UC Berkeley named as having a consequential, direct impact on our health and environment. UC Berkeley Public Health "faculty, researchers, and students are innovating solutions to some of the most pressing issues of our time, from the toll of chronic diseases to scourge of social inequality, from the impact of environmental toxins to the consequences of climate change." Thank you UC Berkeley Public Health for lifting up our work.

Read the full story at UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Link in our bio.

UC Berkeley Public Health graduate students Genesis Sanchez & Kathleen Corpuz joined us this summer to work on several key projects including literature reviews, worker outreach materials, needs assessments and much more. Thank you Genesis and Kathleen for your leadership on these projects and for the energy, intellectual curiosity and commitment you both brought to our office. You both are already missed and we can’t wait to see what you get up to next! 🌱🌱🌱

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Image descriptions:
1. Image of graduate student presenting in front of a slide that reads "Keeping up with Worker Health and Safety Literature." A blue bar with white letters reads: "Training future public health leaders. UC Berkeley Public Health Summer Interns."
2. A group of LOHP staff smile for the camera. A pull quote reads: "MPH Candidate Genesis Sanchez and DrPH Student Kathleen Corpuz joined us this summer to support literature reviews, create outreach materials for scrap metal workers and young agricultural workers, conduct a needs assessment in the domestic worker sector, and more. "
Image 3: A graduate student stands in front of a screen. A pull quote reads: "l got to learn from the lived experiences of working people in the domestic sector. These experiences showed me the importance of involving workers in finding their own solutions to preventing injuries and illnesses. I was also inspired by organizers who have dedicated their lives to building worker capacity. - Kathleen Corpuz, UC Berkeley Public Health.
4. Graduate student points to a screen that reads "Scrap Metal Worker Outreach Materials." A pull quote reads "I learned so much this summer. The practicum solidified my decision to do a capstone on domestic worker health and safety. The team here has been extremely supportive. -Genesis Sanchez."

Heat illness is completely preventable. Yet every year workers die. We are joining workers from across the country this week to participate in the National Week of Heat Action with National Council for Occupational Safety and Health and many of our partners.

We're sharing multilingual materials and offering training for workers and worker organizations.

As part of the California Heat Study, we have also been interviewing workers across California to document the impact of heat on workers in agriculture, construction, food service and warehouses.

Heat protections must include water, rest, shade or cooling, acclimatization and training.

Get in touch:
https://lohp.berkeley.edu/heat
[email protected]

We held a workshop with laborers and domestic workers in San Francisco on fall protections. This is part of a health and safety series in partnership with a member-led immigrant organization.

Llevamos a cabo un taller sobre la protección contra caídas para jornaleros y trabajadoras del hogar en San Francisco. Este taller forma parte de una serie sobre salud y seguridad realizada en colaboración con Nuevo Sol, una organización de inmigrantes liderada por sus propios miembros.