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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

September 18, 2020

The Cal/OSHA Standards Board has unanimously approved our petition for an emergency standard

August 27, 2020

The United Farm Workers conducted a poll this week: 84% of the workers they surveyed had not been provided with N95 respirators by their employers as required by the new Cal/OSHA regulation.

August 10, 2020

The California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is seeking public input about the proposed permanent Protection from Wildfire Smoke standard. They are accepting written comments until August 12, so now is the time to weigh-in about this important worker health and safety issue!

July 30, 2020

We Need an Emergency Standard to Protect Workers from COVID • ICYMI: New Fact Sheet - Now in Spanish • Worksafe Welcomes New Board Member • Building Racial Equity in the Legal System • August 12: Taking Action for Worker Safety • In Memoriam: Joan Lichterman • Worksafe in the News • Summer Fundraiser Update

July 30, 2020

En todo el estado, los trabajadores están reportando que los patrones les obliga a trabajar sin las protecciones adecuadas que pueden dejarlos vulnerables a COVID-19. Los trabajadores quieren saber: ¿tenemos derecho a rechazar el trabajo?