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ER Activity
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hazardous materials emergency response
Hazardous Waste
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Hazardous Waste Management Industry
Hazardous Waste Operations
Hazardous Waste Remediation
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Hazardous Waste Worker
Hazmat Incident
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Product details
- ISBN 9780895033826
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2009
- Publisher: Baywood Publishing Company Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the 1970s and 1980s, a hazardous waste management industry emerged in the U.S., driven by government and polluting industry responses to a hazardous waste crisis. In 1979, labor unions began to seek federal health and safety protections for workers in that industry and for firefighters responding to hazardous materials fires. Those efforts led to a worker health and safety section in the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. The legislation mandated regulation of hazardous waste operations and emergency response worker protection, and establishment of a national health and safety training grant program - which became the Worker Education and Training Program (WETP).Craig Slatin provides a history of labor's success on the coattails of the environmental movement and in the middle of a rightward shift in American politics. He explores how the WETP established a national worker training effort across industrial sectors, with case studies on the health and safety training programs of two unions in the WETP - the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers and the Laborers' Union. Lessons can be learned from one of the last major worker health and safety/environmental protection victories of the 1960s-1980s reform era, coming at the end of the golden age of regulation and just before the new era of deregulation and market dominance. Slatin's analysis calls for a critical survey of the social and political tasks facing those concerned about worker and community health and environmental protection in order to make a transition toward just and sustainable production.
Craig Slatin is an associate professor of Community Health and Health Policy and chair of the Department of Community Health and Sustainability at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is the co-director of the Center for Health Promotion and Research, through which he runs a New England region hazardous waste workers' health and safety training program and has conducted research exploring the political economy of the work environment in the healthcare sector. Dr. Slatin is a co-editor of New Solutions: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy.
