Training Manuals

Agricultural Issues
Aprenda Sobre la Enfermedad del Tabaco Verde: La Experiencia de Juan (Learning about Green Tobacco Sickness: Juan's Experience). Samuel Simmons, MA. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2001. 18pp. Photonovel in Spanish and English following a worker's experience with Green Tobacco sickness.

 

Asbestos
Working with Asbestos: A Carpenter's Guide
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, Suffolk County District Council of Carpenters, New York.

Working with Asbestos: A Stationary Engineer's Guide
International Union of Operating Engineers, New York.

 

Biotechnology Lab Health
Health & Safety Training in the Biotechnology Laboratory: A Practical Guidebook C. Schwartz, ed., with R. Goldman, MD, MPH, E. Gross, IHIT, SM, D. Liberman, PhD, and D. Brooks, MPH & the MA Dept. of Industrial Accidents, 1988.

 

Black Lung
Black Lung Education booklet; Nat'l Jewish Center for Immunology & Resp. Medicine, Denver CO.

 

Cancer
Workplace Roulette: Gambling with Cancer Matthew Firth, James Brophy, Margaret Keith. Copies available for review. Purchasing information will be included with the review copy.

 

Carpentry
Working with Asbestos: A Carpenter's Guide
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, (Suffolk County District Council of Carpenters, New York). (see Asbestos).

Carpentry: Recognizing and Controlling Health and Safety Hazards
Pransky, G., M.D. & J. O'Leary; with support of MA Dept. of Industrial Accidents, and R.D. Marshall Carpenters Training Center.

 

Environmental Health
Common Questions in Occupational and Environmental Health: How Do I Find Out Quickly Seth Foldy, MD

Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards: A Training Manual for Nurses
Children's Environmental Health Network, 1995.

Tap Water Blues: Herbicides in Drinking Water
Environmental Working Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility

 

Hazardous Substances
Is Work Making You Sick? Information for Workers Handling Hazardous Materials: A Worker's Guide to Solvent Hazards
Cameron Wright and the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group

Understanding Toxic Substances
California Dept. Of Health Services, Dept. of Ind. Relations, January 1992 An introduction to chemical hazards in the workplace.

A Worker's Guide to Solvent Hazards
Cameron Wright and the Waterloo Public Interest Research Group

 

Health History
Exposure History Forms
Includes forms used by Cook County Hospital, EPOCH-Envi, Mass. Respiratory Hospital, Migrant Clinicians Network, ATSDR, NIOSH, Wayne State Univ., Univ.Of Maryland, Rocky Mountain Center for Occ. & Env. Health, and a NIOSH checklist.

 

Infectious Diseases
From Negative to Positive
Tuberculosis Control, Allegheny Univ. Of the Health Sciences, 1998. (With video)

HIV/AIDS: SEIU Training Curriculum
Service Employees International Union, no date.

Tuberculosis Control in the Workplace: Science, Implementation and Prevention Policy
Society for Occ. & Env. Health with the Univ. Of California, San Francisco, December 1994.

 

Musculoskeletal Disorders
Musculoskeletal Disorders and Workplace Factors , A critical review of epidemiological evidence for work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the neck, upper extremity, and low back. CDC, US Dept. Of Health and Human Services, July 1997

 

Nuclear Cleanup
Complex Cleanup - The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production , Congress, Office of Technology Assessment, February 1991.

 

Occupational Health
Occupational Health Resource Guide
NJ State Dept. of Health and UMDNJ-RWJ Medical School.

Health & Safety at Work: Trade Union Council Course-book for Union Representatives
August 1986, 4th Edition, TUC Educational Service, London, England.

Occupational Health and Safety: A Training Manual
Ontario Federation of Labour, 1992 second edition.

Health and Safety Manual: Preventing Occupational Illness and Accidents
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), no date

Occupational Noise Exposure
NIOSH 1998

Work-Related Lung Diseases Surveillance Report
NIOSH 1994, 1996 and 2000.

 

Painters
OSHA Health and Safety Education Book.
International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades

 

Pediatrics
An Injured Adolescent
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 1997.

Childhood Lead Poisoning: Good News, Bad News
National Safety Council, 1997.

Clearing the Air: Covering Asthma and other Childhood Diseases
National Safety Council, 1998.

Pediatric Environmental Neurobehavioral Test Battery
US Dept. Of Health & Human Services, Sept. 1996.

 

Pesticides
A Pesky Problem
Allegheny University of the Health Services, 1997 (with video).

Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisoning
EPA, Donald P. Morgan, MD, PhD, March 1989. SILICA

A Guide to Working Safely with Silica: If It’s Silica, It’s Not Just Dust
U.S. Dept. Of Labor. NIOSH. Undated.

 

Worker Training
Assessing Occupational Safety and Health Training: A Literature Review
CDC 1998, seeks answers as to whether occupational safety and health training requirements as cited in many federal standards is effective in reducing work-related injuries and illness, and whether the available evidence shows certain training factors to be more important than others in having positive effects on the outcome measures..

HESIS Guide to Solvent Safety
State of California, Dept. Of Health Services, Dept. Of Industrial Relations.

Protecting Workers Exposed to Lead-based Paint Hazards: A Report to Congress
NIOSH, 1997.

Resource Guide For Evaluating Worker Training: A Focus On Safety And Health
NIEHS, 1997.