WorkSafe Law Center
a legal services support project
CLICK HERE to download our health and safety interest form so we may keep you informed about OSH issues you choose. Fax it back to us at (510) 835-4913.
Be sure to explore the WORKSAFE! website for more information about occupational safety and health issues: legislation, regulations, events (trainings, conferences, WORKSAFE! meetings, SoCalCOSH meetings, White Paper meetings), OSH Topics (organized by type of hazard, by type of worker, and including research tools and the OSH GUIDE), OSH Resources and Links, OSH News, and OSH Job Opportunities.
Training Programs
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Advocacy Assistance
The WorkSafe Law Center works with various groups involved in advocacy related to occupational safety and health and workers' compensation issues. Legal services programs wishing to join these discussions may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org.
Addressing delays and other deficiencies in handling OSH retaliation cases (Labor Code 6310, 6311, 6312)
Addressing lack of protection for workers exposed to excessive heat.
Addressing lack of protection for workers exposed to the 68 carcinogens and/or reproductive and/or developmental hazards designated as such on the Prop 65 list but either COMPLETELY unregulated or under-regulated (workers are protected only against acute effects and not against cancer) in the workplace.
Addressing the exclusion from workers' compensation coverage for most day laborers or domestic service workers (temporary workers exclusion in Labor Code 3352(h)).
Addressing the difficulties low wage and immigrant workers face when trying to determine the insurer of the worker's employer (proposal to add Ins Code provision).
Addressing other inadequacies in the workers' compensation law.
Technical Assistance
OSH Law
Solving workplace safety and health problems. For issues related to occupational safety and health faced by an individual or groups of workers, legal services programs may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org.
Household domestic service is not considered employment under the occupational safety and health administrative law scheme. See Labor Code 6303 (b). A distinction is made by Cal/OSHA between situations where the employee is working for an employer in the employer's home and situations where the employee is working for an agency which has dispatched the employee to a private home. The employer in the latter instance has a duty to provide a safe place to work for the employee. See Labor Code 6304.1 (a) which defines an employee as "every person who is required or directed by any employer to engage in any employment or to go to work or be at any time in any place of employment." Discussions regarding how to protect these workers are ongoing. Legal services programs wishing to join these discussions may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org.
Retaliation against workers involved in occupational safety and health or who refuse unsafe work. Legal services programs seeking assistance with cases involving retaliation based upon being involved with occupational safety and health or refusing unsafe work may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org for assistance with individual cases, for general training materials, and for training programs.
Workers' Compensation Law
Workers' Compensation cases. Legal services programs seeking assistance with workers' comp cases because the matter is not one that a private attorney would take may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org for assistance in setting up workers' comp clinics and referral systems in conjunction with experienced workers' compensation practitioners, for general training materials, and for training programs.
Retaliation against injured workers. Legal services programs seeking assistance with cases involving retaliation against workers who are injured on the job and have filed workers' compensation cases (LC 132a), or involving retaliation against injured workers who have not filed a workers' compensation case but related to the fact the worker was injured may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org for assistance with individual cases, for general training materials, and for training programs.
Housing Law
Toxic substances that impact habitability. Legal services programs seeking assistance with cases involving toxic substances (lead, asbestos, pesticides/fumigants, mold, mercury, toxic chemicals used in the maintenance of common areas, etc.) may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org or Mandy Hawes at ahawes@alexanderlaw.com for assistance with individual cases, for general training materials, and for training programs.
Family Law
Protecting victims of violence at work. Legal services programs seeking assistance with additional tools to protect victims of domestic violence which may follow the victim to work may contact Suzanne Murphy at smurphy@worksafe-cosh.org for assistance with individual cases, for general training materials, and for training programs.
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