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REGISTER for the
WORKSAFE OSH POLICY CONFERENCE
CLICK HERE for the DRAFT POLICY PAPER
CLICK HERE for the DRAFT LEGISLATIVE ADDENDUM
Click here to register on-line
Click "PAY FEE" in the button to pay your $95 registration fee. We are trying to place a button to pay on the "on-line" registration form, but until we do, the payment button is on this separate page.
Scholarships are available based on need. If you are part of an organization, we ask that the organization initiate the scholarship. For more information, contact Sophie Noero (contact info below).
Worksafe OSH Policy Conference
Learning from the Past, Building for the Future:
Worker health and safety policy, research, advocacy and organizing
Sunday December 2, 2007
12 noon - 8 pm
Monday December 3, 2007
8 am - 5 pm
Hilton Garden Inn
1800 Powell Street
Emeryville, CA 94608
(510) 658-9300
Click here to link to the hotel website. We have a block of rooms at a discounted rate of $149/nite + tax. Inform the hotel you are with Worksafe. The DEADLINE for this discounted block of rooms is November 2, 2007.
Click here for the CONFERENCE BROCHURE (when you print the brochure, use legal size paper). Registration includes admission to conference sessions, materials, Sunday dinner and entertainment, and Monday breakfast and lunch. Please make checks payable to Worksafe. You can pay by credit card and register online by using the links above.
Conference cancellations received in writing by November 16 will receive a refund of $65. Cancellations received by November 23 will receive a refund of $35. No refunds after November 23, but substitute registrants are accepted.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Health and safety activists from unions, worker centers, and community based organizations; worker advocates from legal services programs, and labor and employment law firms
OSH professionals; government personnel responsible for protecting workers; and other interested persons.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: This conference is a chance for workers and worker advocates to discuss and develop recommendations and strategies for changes in public policy that will improve worker safety and health. Discussion will be based on a policy white paper develope by Worksafe which will be available on-line in advance. Click here for the White Paper (to be posted).
CONFERENCE GOALS:
- Establish a network for effective future communication and collaboration among safety and health advocates
- Develop shared goals to improve worker safety and health and assure adequate remedies for injured workers with a focus on these areas:
- Collective worker action
- Government agency action
- Meeting the needs of injured workers
- Identify top priorities for action within each of these areas, taking into acocunt the current political landscape
- Identify issues fo rnational action to which California worker advocates can contribute or which will help us achieve our own priorities
- Identify key strategies, tactics, allies and other campaign compoents to move forward with an aggressive worker oreintede occupational safety and health policy agenda
Click here for a SAVE the DATE LEAFLET which you can return to us in order TO PRE-REGISTER if you are interested in attending. For more info contact Fran Schreiberg at fcs@worksafe.org or call (510) 302-1071 or Sophie Noero at snoero@worksafe-cosh.org or call (510) 302-1027.
Click here to jump to the webpage with information about the WORKSAFE! white paper. Contact us if you are interested in helping us prepare for this conference by participating in one of the committees that will be developing proposals for an OSH POLICY AGENDA which will be reviewed at the conference. Click here to sign up to help with one of the sections of the paper. Email fcs@worksafe.org or call (510) 302-1071 to get involved in preparing sections of the white paper.
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