South Central Wisconsin COSH works with WisCOSH and supports their activities. Made up of over 50 labor organizations, health care professionals, attourneys, UW faculty, and lots of safety activists, we are the fastest growing COSH in the country! We serve southern and central Wisconsin.
We are very proactive in :
- grassroots organizing for public policy;
- aggressive education and training;
- developing a growing network of health and safety activists to serve the intrests of working people
We belive every injury, every illness, and every fatality is needless and can and should be prevented!
- Training and education to unions. In the past four years we have provided training and education to more than 300 people!
- Free Health and Safety Network meetings that are open to the public. We cover a wide range of topics and issues.
- Annual Conference on Health and Safety in Madison. This has become a very popular event in south central Wisconsin. Often this is held in conjuction with WisCOSH, on succeeding weekends, with the same and varied workshops to increase the reach and opportunity for the sharing of information.
- Resource and technical services. Our resources and volunteer base is extensive enough to aid and assist working people of many trades and occupations.
- Publication of How to Handle a Worker's Compensation Claim, with over 500 sold and in use in south central Wisconsin alone.
- Annual Workers' Memorial Day services that hundreds have participated in.
- Public advocacy for ergonomics. Specifically the improvement of enforcement and regulation, and the reform of Wisconsin Worker's Compensation Law.
- P.O. Box 2194
- Madison, WI 53701-2194
- Phone : (608) 345-1111
- E-Mail : scwcosh at yahoo.com