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August 26–30, 2024
Labor Rights Week
Consulate of Mexico Labor Rights Week.
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September 13, 2024
Construction Suicide Prevention Week
Suicide prevention in the workplace, a topic of increasing concern for businesses. The presentation will include:
• General Statistics, including suicide rates by age, ethnicity, and occupation, and statistics within the LGBTQ+, veteran, and disabled communities
• Suicide Risk Factor/Warning Signs
• Protective Factors
• Suicide Risk Screening Tool Examples, including the ASQ-NIMH Toolkit, the PHQ- 9 (Patient Health Questionnaire), and Simple Questions
• SAFE-T (Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage) - SAMHSA, including identifying risk factors, identifying protective factors, conducting suicide inquiries, determining levels/interventions, and documentation
• Resources for Safety Professionals
The presentation will include a question and answer session. This is a free virtual event designed to educate the construction workforce. The event is also open to contractors, small business owners, professional technical educators, businesses required to follow OSHA standards and anyone interested in creating a safer workplace.
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June 21, 2024 | 12pm—2pm PT
Trench Safety Stand Down 2024 • In-Person and Online Webinar
OSHA has made reducing trenching and excavation hazards the Agency's Priority Goal. Trench collapses, or cave-ins, pose the greatest risk to workers' lives. California State University Dominguez Hills OSHA Education Center, in partnership with Trench Shoring, will be hosting a stand-down to support the Trench Safety Stand Down and raise awareness on cave-ins prevention. During this event, we will provide valuable information to participants about current excavation requirements and safety procedures for working in trenches.
Topics include:
• Top 10 mistakes made by contractors while excavating
• What are the must-have elements of an Effective Trenching and Excavation Shoring Program
• Tips on how to be more effective in implementing the fundamentals on the jobsite
• What is needed to have consistency on a daily basis on the jobsite with Trench and Excavation Safety
• Discussion and Q&A
May 10, 2024 | 12pm–2pm PDT
National Safety Stand-Down: Fall Protection • In-Person and Online Webinar
Fatalities caused by falls from elevation continue to be a leading cause of death for construction employees, accounting for 395 of the 1069 construction fatalities recorded in 2022 (BLS data). Those deaths were preventable. The National Safety Stand-Down raises fall hazard awareness across the country in an effort to stop fall fatalities and injuries.
Join Jeremy Trask from Commercial Scaffolding as he presents a fall prevention and protection workshop on strategies to effectively implement proper fall arrest systems for various worksites. Information related to the latest ANSI Z359.1-2020, “The Fall Protection Code”, including fall arrest anchorage types and classification will be discussed..
Whistleblower 101: OSHA Region 9 • Online Webinar
OSHA & OTIEC Region 9 | Learn more about workplace retaliation, how to file a whistleblower complaint, how to create an anti-retaliation program, and more!
OSHA’s Whistleblower Protection Program engages is a wide range of activities in partnership with employers, employees, and state plan agencies to achieve OSHA’s mission and operational goals for ensuring workers have the right to exercise their rights regarding a safe and healthy work environment free from the fear of retaliation.
Safe + Sound 2023 • In-Person and Online Webinar
Safe + Sound Week is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep America's workers safe.
Join California State University, Dominguez Hills - OSHA Training Institute Education Center for Safe + Sound Week. Safe and Sound is a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep America's workers safe.
Construction Suicide Prevention 2023 • Webinar
Discover Resources and Bring Awareness to Workplace Suicide Prevention with CSUDH Mental Health Professionals
Dr. Mekeisha Buffaloe, Psy.D, Psychological Counselor, Student Psychological Services, California State University, Dominguez Hills, will give a talk about suicide prevention in the workplace, a topic of increasing concern for businesses. The presentation will include: General Statistics; Suicide Risk Factors/Warning Signs; Suicide Risk Screening Tool Examples; SAFE-T (Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage); SAMHSA; Resources for Safety Professionals; and more! The presentation will include a question and answer session.
