Hosted by Berkley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
Panelists Mitch Steiger and David Hornung, along with moderators Monique Hosein and Laura Stock, will review the issue of heat as an occupational safety and health hazard, review the current Cal/OSHA standards in place to address indoor and outdoor heat, and offer guidance on implementing controls to protect workers.
This presentation by LOHP in collaboration with COEH is based on the School Action for Safety and Health (SASH) administered by the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation in the California Department of Industrial Relations through an interagency agreement with the Labor Occupational Health Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Registration
https://www.coeh.berkeley.edu/24web0807
Learning Objectives
At the completion of this activity, the learner will be able to:
- Describe the hazards of indoor and outdoor heat and the connection to the climate crisis
- Outline the elements of the Cal/OSHA heat standards to protect workers from indoor and outdoor heat
- Identify strategies to protect school-based workers from heat
About the Speakers
Dr. Monique Hosein is a Coordinator of Public Programs at LOHP. Her project portfolio includes leading the WOSHTEP (Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program) and SASH (School Action for Safety and Health) programs. Monique is a graduate of the Doctor of Public Health program at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and the Master of Public Health program (Community Health Education) at San Francisco State University. She has a background in mixed methods research through the lenses of health equity, the intersection of race and gender, and cultural humility. LOHP’s Social Justice and Worker Health seminar and her time as a student member of the LOHP Academic Advisory Committee crystallized Monique’s interest in healthy jobs as a determinant of health. Joining the LOHP team in 2022 was a realization of that commitment to safe, healthy, just workplaces.
Laura Stock is the director of the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP). She directs and administers LOHP’s programs providing training, research support, materials development and technical assistance for workers, employers, health professionals, and the general public. She also provide direction to staff on translating research findings to practice and to public policy (R2P2P). In her over thirty years at LOHP, she has developed various training programs and educational materials on occupational safety and health issues and have provided technical assistance and consultation to workers, unions, joint labor/management committees, employers, policymakers and others on how to set up comprehensive and effective health and safety programs. Ms. Stock is currently principal investigator on a number of statewide worker education initiatives including WOSHTEP (Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program), and is a former member of the Cal/OSHA Standards Board, charged with developing occupational safety regulations for the state of CA as well as the NIOSH/ NORA Committees on Healthy Work Design.
Mitch Steiger is the Legislative Representative for the CFT, a Union of Educators and Classified Professionals. The CFT is a union of educators and classified professionals affiliated with the 1.7-million-member American Federation of Teachers, and through it with the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Steiger’s role is to advocate on behalf of CFT member educators and classified professionals in a variety of issue areas by introducing and lobbying for passage of union-sponsored bills. Mr. Steiger also represents workers on a variety of statewide boards and commissions and is a member of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521.