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STRATEGIES

  • We counter anti-worker and anti-immigrant policy trends with our alternative vision of safety, health, and justice for all workers.

  • Knowledge is power. We create and distribute resources to raise awareness about occupational health hazards and workers' rights.

  • We provide legal training, technical assistance, and support to legal aid orgs that serve low-wage and immigrant workers.

  • Our research highlights occupational health & safety trends, notes emerging hazards, and documents movement victories.

  • Our interactive trainings are designed to build worker leadership and power. Topics include Hazard Identification and Health & Safety Rights.

  • Our approach to worker health & safety is grounded in creative collaborations with organizations throughout California.

  • US workers die on the job each day

    14

  • US workers die on the job each year
    US workers die on the job each year

    5,200

  • Americans die from occupational disease each day

    137

  • Americans die from occupational disease each year

    50,000

Our Mission

To prevent worker illness, injury, and death by bringing justice to the workplace.

News & Events

March 25, 2020

With COVID-19, Worker Health is Public Health • Race Equity & the "Future of Work" • Cal/OSHA Extends Temporary Wildfire Smoke Rules • Recent Outreach & Education • Worksafe Board Welcomes New Members • Congrats, Amanda Hawes • COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources

March 20, 2020

Cal/OSHA’s Aerosol Transmissible Diseases standard lays out the framework for protecting California's health care workers from diseases like COVID-19. And it's more important than ever.

March 2, 2020

Worksafe is committed to bringing the voice of workers to the table in all venues that we participate in, especially the most vulnerable workers.