Organization Website
Twitter: @worksafeca
Facebook: Facebook
Primary geographic focus: California Statewide, Northern California, Southern California
Organization Type: Provider, Research/Policy/Organizing
LAAC Membership Type: Members
Lists: IOLTA-Funded, IOLTA Support Centers
Tags: Employment, Workers Rights
Worksafe is a California-based organization dedicated to eliminating all types of workplace hazards. Worksafe advocates for protective worker health and safety laws and effective remedies for injured workers, watchdogs government agencies to ensure they enforce these laws, and engages in campaigns in coalition with unions, workers, community, environmental and legal organizations, and scientists to eliminate hazards and toxic chemicals from the workplace.
To protect the most vulnerable of California workers, Worksafe engages in impact litigation and provides legal training, technical assistance, and advocacy support to legal services programs who serve low wage and immigrant workers.
Worksafe began in the late 1970s when a group of labor, community, and occupational health educators and activists came together to advocate for safety and health for California’s workers. The organization has roots in two past groups, BACOSH (Bay Area Committee on Occupational Safety and Health) and SCCOSH (Santa Clara Center on Occupational Safety and Health). These two organizations became CalCOSH in 2004, and the name of the organization was changed to Worksafe in 2006.
PRESS/RESEARCH MENTIONING/INVOLVING THIS SOURCE
LAAC Member StoryWorkday, Street Level Health Project, and Centro Legal de la Raza Reclaim Lives Lost Needlessly to Workplace Hazards
Jora TrangApril 18, 2016
Join Worksafe, Street Level Health Project, and Centro Legal de la Raza Thursday, April 28th, 2016 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. for their Workers Memorial Day Event in Downtown Oakland where they will call upon workers, unions, advocates, allies, and government agencies to join them in honoring those who have lost their lives at work. Please come out to show solidarity, mourn for the dead, fight like hell for the living.
News Story
Senate-approved plan would promote legal services for low-income Californians
Allyson EscobarThe Asian Journal
September 15, 2015
SB 134, which would support a loan-assistance program for attorneys committed to serving the public interest, awaits governor's signature.
TRAININGS FROM THIS SOURCE
Recognizing and Addressing Implicit Bias in Domestic Violence Cases
Sep 26, 2017This training will offer experience-based knowledge in advocating within Latino and Southeast Asian communities around issues of domestic violence and provide information on how to address issues of Implicit Bias.
MCLE: 1 hour (Elimination of Bias)
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Disposable Workers?: Worker Injury & Death Under the Trump Administration
Jul 31, 2017Learn more about basic health and safety rights of workers, anticipated challenges under the Trump Administration, and what you can do to join the on-going campaigns around the nation and the state to protect vulnerable workers, communities and families.
MCLE: 1 hour
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Workplace Health and Safety: The Stress and Substance Abuse Component
Aug 20, 2013Discussion of stress innate to legal aid and social justice work and substance abuse issues that may be a symptom of that stress.
MCLE: 1 hour (Competence Issues (formerly substance abuse))
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Delivery of Legal Services to Latino and Southeast Asian Client Communities
Sep 4, 2014Offers experience-based knowledge in advocating within monolingual Latino and Southeast Asian (particularly Vietnamese) communities.
MCLE: 1 hour (Elimination of Bias)
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