OSHA enforcement focuses on Spanish-language training
OSHA Healthcare Connection, April 20, 2010
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Making sure that employers provide non-English OSHA training, when needed, will soon become an enforcement initiative. That announcement came during the April 14 keynote address at the National Action Summit for Latino Worker Health and Safety by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis.
“OSHA will also assure that its Compliance Officers check and verify not only that the training has been provided, but that it was provided in a format that the workers being trained can understand,” said Solis.
For more in this initiative, including an OSHA interpretation letter addressing this issue, a downloadable table of Common English/Spanish Bloodborne Pathogens Training Terms, and links to non-English healthcare-related workplace safety training resources, go to today’s featured post, “OSHA training no longer lost in the translation.”
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