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The
Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America Offers Array of
Services for Contractors and Employees
The
Laborers' Health & Safety Fund of North America (LHSFNA) is a
labor-management organization committed to protecting the health and
safety of Laborers and their families while at the same time enhancing our
partner contractors' competitiveness.
An Array of Services
LHSFNA advances these goals
through an array of services delivered by its three divisions.
- Occupational Safety
& Health-- provides technical assistance to LIUNA Locals and
contractors, emphasizing early intervention to prevent job-related
injury. This mission encompasses a number of activities that
include:
- Conducting job
site visits
- Developing safety
programs to meet the needs of individual contractors
- Publishing
literature to keep pace with the changes to safety and health
regulations
- Educating Laborers
on safe work practices.
- Health Promotion --Provides
educational materials and programs to address the broad range of
health and wellness needs of LIUNA's working families, both on and off
the job site. This is accomplished through a variety of
administrative and hands-on procedures including:
- Supporting health
and welfare funds to control expenditures
- Providing health
screenings to Laborers and their families
- Developing training
programs on smoking cessation, drug and alcohol use, and other
issues that disproportionately affect laborers
- Arranging
counseling when Laborers experience the trauma of job site
injuries and fatalities.
- Research --
Collects and analyzes information on a variety of health and safety
issues. This enables the Fund to identify and track immediate
and long-term dangers to Laborers on the job and to develop
interventions to address these dangers and prevent future occurrences.
Aside from traditional construction safety and health issues other
areas of research include
- Hazardous waste
worker tracking
- Highway work zone
safety
- Department of
Energy worker surveillance
For more information:
Chad Wright
(626) 433-2180
www.liuna.org |
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Protecting workers while enhancing contractor competitiveness.
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