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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

October 7, 2020

Reimagining Work • Thank You, Nicole • New Video: Protecting Yourself at Work During Coronavirus • Ride-Hail Drivers Deserve Protections & Benefits • "Right to Refuse" Fact Sheet Now in Vietnamese • Meet Worksafe's Health & Safety Intern • #COSHCON2020 Registration Now Open!

September 30, 2020

This important legislation would have ended the historic, discriminatory exclusion of “household domestic service” from Cal/OSHA protections.

September 29, 2020

Trên khắp tiểu bang, người lao động đang báo cáo rằng họ phải làm việc mà không có những biện pháp bảo vệ an toàn phù hợp, điều này khiến họ dễ bị lây nhiễm COVID-19. Người lao động muốn biết: họ có quyền từ chối công việc hay không?

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.