Wisconsin Committee on Occupational Safety and Health
Advancing health & safety for all workers and their families.
WisCOSH, along with scwCOSH, is the largest, independant, worker based organization in Wisconsin that makes worker safety and health top priority. We are not a government agency. Our strength depends on our members and their involvement. Volunteers are the backbone of all we accomplish.
WisCOSH is an independent organization that works closely with the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, labor unions, individual workers, and other occupational safety and health groups across North America. It is WisCOSH's mission to improve workplace safety and heath for Wisconsin Workers by providing the enviroment and resources for concerned individuals to use their skills for the direct benefit of working people and their families and to empower people to join together and collaborate with others, including health personnel, community leaders and interested business people, to create an interest in safety and health in the workplace.
WisCOSH to Offer Free Trainings Again In 2008
Vulnerable Worker Training
Once again WisCOSH is participating in the National COSH's Susan Harwood Training Grant which is funded from the Dept. of Labor through OSHA. This is a grant that WisCOSH has participated in for 7 years and have trained over 500 workers each of the last 3 year. This grant will run through September 30, 2008.
This grant allows WisCOSH to train on a number of workplace safety and health topics which are targeted at workers in high risk occupations. For this grant a high risk worker is someone who has Limited English Proficiency; is a Health Care/Nursing Home Worker or supervisor; is a temporary, young or new worker or works in a High Hazard Industry such as food processing, construction or other recognized occupation with a high incidence of workplace injuries, illnesses or deaths. For more information.
Focus 4 Hazard Training for Building Construction Trades Workers
WisCOSH is participating with Central New York COSH in it's Focus 4 Hazard Training Grant. WisCOSH has joined this grant in progress. This grant is to provide training to construction workers on the most often reported injuries in the construction trades. They are : falls, electrocution, caught-in and struck-by. These trainings are open to those who are currently working in the build and construction trades or who are taking training classes to become a member of the building and construction trades whether they belong to a union or not.
Currently WisCOSH is making contact with building contractors to train their employees and supervisors as well as contacting unions to provide this training to their members. The training will consist of 4 modules targeted on each of the 4 hazards. For more information.
WisCOSH Supports Paid Sick Day Campaign
WisCOSH joins the 9to5 National Association of Working Women, Milwaukee Jobs.COM as well as many others in supporting the Healthy Families Act (S.910, H.R.1542). The ability to have time away from work to get healthy is an important workplace safety and health right.
Workers Memorial Day is April 28, 2008
WisCOSH and the Milwaukee County Labor Council have begun plans for Worker's Memorial Day. Together we will once again pay homage to those men, women and teens who were killed on the job or died due to illness caused by occupational exposure to hazards. We will gather in Zeidler Union Square to memorialize them and at the American Postal Worker's Union Hall for dinner. There will be geust speakers as well. For more info
Update! on 9/11 Workers Compensation Filing Deadline!
One Year Extension Granted for File with New York Workers' Compensation Board
There has been an extension granted. New York Governor Eliot Spitzer signed the extension for one year on Monday, July 9th, 2007. The new deadline is August 14th, 2008. You can read about it here, and here and here.
If you took part in the rescue, recovery and/or clean-up do not wait! Register now!
You do not need to be sick or even diagnosed with any disease yet. However you will need to notify the NY Worker's Compensation Board so that in the future when any problems arise you will already be in the system. After August 14, 2008 you will no longer be able to claim Worker's Compensation benifits for 9/11 related issues if you do become ill unless you have previously registered.
9/11 Workers and Volunteers! Register now to protect your right to Workers' Compensation Benifits
If you did paid or unpaid rescue, recovery or cleanup work in Lower Manhattan during the year 2000 after 9/11, you may be eligible for medical and wage replacement benifits - but only if you register first with the New York State Workers' Compensation Board! You do not need to be a resident of New York State to be eligible for these benifits. More information here ..
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