Safety.BLR.com Helps Employers with this Challenge: How to Deliver Required OSHA Training to a Growing Population of Hispanic Workers
Safety.BLR.com has just created a Spanish Resources Center to help employers keep up with the challenge of keeping a rapidly growing multilingual workforce in compliance with OSHA’s safety and health requirements.
Old Saybrook, CT (PRWEB) March 17, 2005 -- Experts at OSHA recognize the
problem, but busy employers are the ones trying to cope with it. Immigrants make
up an estimated 14 percent of the U.S. workforce, and nearly half of them are
considered to have limited proficiency in English. That translates into a big
challenge for employers: how to keep a multilingual workforce in compliance with
OSHA’s stringent safety and health requirements.
Fortunately for
employers, Safety.BLR.com, the website for safety professionals that makes
training and compliance easier, has just created a Spanish Resources Center at
http://safety.blr.com/spanish.cfm. The Center includes Spanish
training handouts and quizzes on 54 OSHA topics. It also features news, white
papers, forms, guidance documents, regulatory activity, and agency directives
and interpretations to help manage occupational safety and health for the
Spanish-speaking workforce.
Steve Quilliam, editor at Safety.BLR.com,
commented on the site’s new Resources Center: “OSHA requires companies to make
sure their employees understand safety training and follow OSHA requirements.
That obligation doesn’t change if their employees have a limited understanding
of English. So with its prewritten training materials and handouts, our new
Spanish Resources Center can be a helpful solution to this challenge.”
The 54 training topics in the Resources Center include Spanish handouts
and quizzes on confined spaces, defensive driving, electrical safety, and eye
protection.
Sample safety meeting for Hispanic workers:
To help
employers get their training started, BLR has made available a sample hazard
communication training meeting in English and Spanish, similar to those
available at Safety.BLR.com. To download this free sample, go to www.blr.com/81001600/PRS3
About BLR
Old Saybrook,
Conn.-based BLR produces plain-English compliance and training resources for
safety, environmental, HR, and compensation managers. For a free catalog, call
800-727-5257 or visit www.BLR.com.
Contact:
Safety.BLR.com Managing Editor Steve Quilliam
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