Reminder: Train the Trainer Program on Workplace Safety and Health

The National Labor College has announced their upcoming annual Train the Trainer Program on Workplace Safety and Health. It will be held February 6 – 11, 2011 at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.

This is a six-day program using a participatory popular education approach. Participants will learn new ways to teach workers about workplace health and safety, with a focus on the following areas: Worker and Union Roles in Workplace Safety and Health, Identifying Hazards in the Workplace, Legal Health and Safety Rights of Workers and Unions, Record Keeping (OSHA 300 Log) Requirements, Introduction to Ergonomics, and Effective Health and Safety Committees. Participants will also learn how to teach or facilitate classes on these subjects for other union/organization members.

Many CWA leaders and safety and health activists have taken this course over the years gaining a better understanding of safety and health as a union/worker issue and becoming more effective trainers.

The program, sponsored by the Labor Safety and Health Training Project of the National Labor College. The goal of the Project is to involve workers in union efforts to improve workplace safety and health, and to make CWA and other unions more effective in their efforts to get employers to correct safety and health problems.

For further information (including costs), go to http://www.nlc.edu/educational-programs/labor-safety-and-health-training-project - scroll to almost the end until you get to “train the trainer program” where there are two links – one for a flyer and one for an application.