Immigrant Dairy Worker Health and Safety - Seguridad en las lecherías
Description of Project
Seguridad en las lecherías is a health and safety intervention for foreign-born workers in dairy. This award winning project uses a popular education model that includes worker training and promotores de salud (or Community Health Workers) to reduce worksite hazards and to improve worker knowledge and practices. Through extensive input from workers, health and safety professionals, and researchers, this project developed an OSHA-approved five-module, bilingual health and safety training curriculum. The curriculum includes background sections on each topic, evaluation tools, and a step-by-step facilitator's guide with visuals either in the form a PowerPoint slide presentation or a flip chart.
This project is a partnership of MCN, the National Farm Medicine Center, and the Upper Midwest Agriculture Safety and Health Center.
All photos by Earl Dotter