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The Domestic Worker Health and Safety comprehensive training guide is now available on our website!
You can find the complete training at: buff.ly/xOtAnwD
#workerhealth #workersafety #domesticworkerrights
Firefighters are fighting for their right to use medical cannabis off the clock, but concerns over safety and liability are sparking intense debate.
Read the full story!
#NM #WorkerHealth #CitizenPortal #MedicalCannabis #SafetyRegulations #NewMexicoFirefighters
Cover page of Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles: Process Guide
The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Certification Program Principles: Process Guide is now live!
This guide outlines the six steps taken to develop a set of values and practices that will inform the foundation of the Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Business Certification Program. ⬇️
#workerhealth
"...Center’s work will inform and inspire future generations of researchers, practitioners, and advocates.”
– Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Center for Healthy Work, Director
Here is how we are sustaining momentum for worker health and safety research into 2026 and beyond!
#WorkerHealth #Worker Safety
"Together, we are shaping a future where every worker has a fair and just opportunity to achieve their highest level of health.”
– Kirsten Almberg, PhD, MS, Director of the Center for Healthy Work
Thank you for celebrating our milestones with us in 2025!
#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #PublicHealth
Explore the various ways our projects transformed evidence into practice this year with creative, community-driven approaches to healthy work!
#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #PublicHealth #UIC #Chicago
Here is how our team members advanced Total Worker Health by generating various scholarly outputs, strengthening neighborhood-level capacity, and filling longstanding gaps in occupational health practice!
#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #WorkersRights #PublicHealth #UIC #Chicago
New MMWR data confirm that coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (black lung) is still causing preventable deaths—1,754 in 2020–2023, mostly among miners and construction/extraction workers, especially in Appalachia. Learn more: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
#WorkerHealth #BlackLung
Addressing discomfort early, improving ergonomics, and encouraging reporting of symptoms may prevent long-term joint damage and support workforce longevity.
ohsonline.com/articles/202...
#Ergonomics #WorkerHealth #EarlyIntervention
📊 Industrial hygiene is going data-driven.
Smarter exposure assessment programs are utilizing more accurate data to enhance risk identification and worker protection.
Read more: ohsonline.com/articles/202...
#IndustrialHygiene #WorkerHealth #SafetyTechnology
Canada’s Building Trades Unions has released a survey of building trades union members to better understand the health challenges faced by workers in the skilled trades.
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Click on the link for more details: buff.ly/b3PLs1H
#CBTU #mentalhealth #skilledtrades #workerhealth
Annoying interaction in downtown Decatur - a landscaping crew had one person spraying pesticide on some plants while another person was using a leaf blower right behind the first, and spreading the mist all over the area. I stayed over 30 yards away, but could still taste the chemicals […]
Our board member Dr. @mscammell.bsky.social of @busph.bsky.social speaks with @wgbh.org about her and colleagues' research on the health impacts of #heat, as well as how changes in federal funding are affecting critical research in this area. #WorkerHealth
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💥 UConn study led by Cecilia Kaufman at KSI demonstrates that commercially available body-cooling garments provide significant protection against extreme heat!
🔗 today.uconn.edu/2025/07/cool...
#HeatSafety #WorkerHealth #UConn #KSI #ClimateAdaptation
#workerhealth #workersafety #communityhealth #publichealth #chicagolabor #NorthLawndale #LittleVillage
[cont.] Health (NIOSH) and the threats to workers’ lives if the full funding is not reinstated.
Click here to read more: buff.ly/2QLQBnV
#workerhealth #workersafety #laborrights #NIOSH #federalfundingcuts #publichealth #research
On Memorial Day 1937, peaceful protesters marched for steelworker rights outside of Republic Steel Plant on the Southeast side of Chicago. They were brutally attacked by police officers with weapons obtained by the plant's owners. 🧵
#OnThisDay #ChicagoHistory #WorkerHealth
📆 Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025, 10am-12pm
📍Location: Odehmenan Health Equity Center
UIC Library of the Health Sciences
1750 W. Polk St., Suite 220
Chicago, IL 60612
Everyone is welcome to attend!
#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #CommunityHealth #PublicHealth
Trump cuts will harm health and safety of American workers #safety #NIOSH #occhealth #CDC #workerhealth
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Well friends. Now you might know how my brain works. Here's today's spontaneous blog. Click on link or find it at the top of my home page at dedemontgomery dot com. dedemontgomery.com/2025/04/07/n... #workerhealth #salons #formaldehyde #saveNIOSH
Sharing a video that highlights both some areas for improvement in safety and some great examples of workers taking care of themselves. That hip rotation exercise might look funny, but it's a vital stretch to prevent injuries on the job. #ConstructionSafety #WorkerHealth #StretchingAtWork
#Safety
Nevada is on the brink of a housing revolution as Senate Bill 370 aims to streamline the titling process for manufactured homes, promising relief for residents and community owners alike!
Click to read more!
#NV #CitizenPortal #WorkerHealth #LegislativeReform #NevadaManufacturedHomes
🔖NEW PUBLICATION from our Workforce Health and Well-being for All as a Sustainable Business Strategy project: “Workplace Culture of Health and Equitable Workforce Well-Being: A Scoping Literature Review” (American Journal of Health Promotion).
Read here: https://f.mtr.cool/hajndidvwe
#workerhealth
Photograph of a broken fire escape and photograph of a hole at bottom of fire escape after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Blue background. CHW logo. Text reads: Source: National Archives and Records Administration. Office of Presidential Libraries. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library. (04/01/1985 - 07/31/2011).
Many factors contributed to the high death toll, including ineffective fire escapes, lack of irrigation system, blocked exit routes caused by employers locking doors, and inadequate FDNY rescue equipment to reach high floors.
#WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety
From shaping domestic worker protections to tackling heat & wildfire risks, UC Berkeley’s Labor Occupational Health Program has fought for #SafeJobs & #WorkerHealth for decades. Here’s to 50 years—and many more! 💪 #UCBerkeley #PublicHealth
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#CommunityViolence #Safety #Abolition #WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #HealthPolicy #HealthSciences #PublicHealthResearch
To learn more about the radio series, coordinated by UIC LALS and SPH, visit https://www.luchaportusderechos.org/
#Radio #WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #MigrantRights #LuchaPorTusDerechos #ChicagoWorkersRights
