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Occupational Safety and Literacy
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. E-mail suggestions for future weekly topics
always welcome.
November 2002
Federal Government
Congressional Testimony
The Subcommittee on Employment, Safety and Training Committee on
Health, Education, Labor and Pensions United States Senate “Occupational
Safety and Health Administration's efforts to protect immigrant
workers.” John L. Henshaw (February 27, 2002)
Bureau of Labor Statistics
2001
Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data Industry by event or
exposure (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by transportation incidents
and homicides (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by private sector, government
workers, and self-employed workers (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Industry by year, 1995-2001
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by event or exposure
(2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Occupation by transportation incidents
and homicides
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Worker characteristics by event or
exposure (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by age (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Event or exposure by major private
industry division (2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries Data - Primary and secondary source of injury
by major private industry division (2001)
Census Bureau
The
Hispanic Population in the United States Population Characteristics
March 2000 (March 2001)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Worker
Health Chartbook, 2000: Fatal Injury (May 2002)
Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluation and Field Studies National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention New
Directions in the Surveillance of Hired Farm Worker Health and Occupational
Safety (1995)
ELCOSH
Electronic
Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health
Provides access to fact sheets and guide manuals in both English
and Spanish.
Department of Education
National Center for Education Statistics
Demographic
Changes and Literacy Development in a Decade. Working Paper
Series.
Stephen Reder, Barry Edmonston (2000)
General Accounting Office
Worker
Protection Labor’s Efforts to Enforce Protections for Day
Laborers Could Benefit from Better Data and Guidance (September
2002)
see also in
Spanish
Contingent
Workers: Incomes and Benefits Lag Behind Those of Rest of Workforce
(June 30, 2000)
Child
Labor in Agriculture: Changes Needed to Better Protect Health and
Educational Opportunities (Aug. 21, 1998)
Department of Labor
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy - Office of
Program Economics
Findings from the A
Demographic and National Agricultural Employment Profile of Workers
Survey United States Farmworkers
(NAWS) 1997-1998 Research Report No. 8 (March 2000)
National Institute for Literacy
Dr. Larry Mikulecky Response
to Questions From the NIFL Workplace Discussion List October
2000
Occupational Safety
and Health Administration
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South
Central Region
Health
Literacy Eileen Sullivan University of New Mexico, Health Sciences
Center Library, Albuquerque, NM (June 2000)
State Governments
California/OSHA
Injury
& Illness Prevention Model Program for Employers with Intermittent
Workers in Agriculture. CS-1CS Ag - Cal/OSHA Consultation Service
6 E&T (January 1997)
State OSHA Departments
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