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OSH Bulletin-April 2008 - Workers' Memorial Day

Last week we announced the availability of our new brochure entitled "Reducing Electrical Hazards: How Telecom Techs Can Protect Themselves and Help CWA Hold Employers Responsible."

After nine years, a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO and UFCW, and nearly a half-million workplace injuries, in November, 2007, the Bush OSHA Administration issued its Final Rule or Standard on general industry Employer-Paid Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). The standard requires private sector and public sector employers- located in states having ?state plans?- to provide and pay for most types of PPE (as long as PPE has been previously required) used to comply with OSHA standards.

A six-day "train the trainer" program on workplace health and safety using a participatory popular education approach. Participants will learn the fundamentals of workplace health and safety, with a focus on the topics below. They will also learn how to teach or facilitate classes on these subjects for other union members.

In July 2007, the Alaska Supreme Court made a landmark ruling in which the Court held that a telecommunications worker's exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation at levels slightly above the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) RF radiation safety limit caused psychological or cognitive mental health effects