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Mexican Consulate/Wage and Hour/Iowa Division of Labor
ANNUAL ALLIANCE REPORT
January 22, 2009
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I. Alliance Background
Date Signed
January 18, 2007
Overview
To provide OSHA, Wage and Hour, Iowa Division of Labor and the Mexican Consulate
and others with information, guidance, an access to training resources that are
expected to help them protect employee’s health and safety, particularly in
reducing and preventing exposure to falls, noise and other safety hazards and
addressing working conditions, and labor rights issues.
Implementation Team
Bonita Winingham, OSHA
Percella Maupins, Wage and Hour
Mike Whitmore, Iowa OSHA
Joe Mullen, Iowa OSHA
Steve Slater, Iowa Division of Labor
Edgar Rebollar, Consulado de Mexico
Contributors
Joe Fagan, Citizens for Community Improvement (CCI)
Guillermo Hernandez, CCI
Erica Palmer, CCI
Venus Vendoures Walsh, New Iowan Centers
Barbara Bobb, New Iowan Centers
Carlos Rios, Iowa Immigrant Rights Network
Evaluation Period
January 18, 2008 – January 18, 2009
II. Implementation Team Meetings
April 23, 2008
September 12, 2008
October 17, 2008
III. Training and Education
Training and Education
Outreach and Communication
- Events:
The group scheduled two different train-the-trainer sessions one for June and
one for September. The June training seminar had to be cancelled due to
illness and the September seminar was cancelled due to low enrollment. This
train-the-trainer session is to provide information about different
organizations who provide services to the Hispanic community to other groups
and organizations who work with Hispanics in Iowa.
- Products
No new products were developed, however, 200 OSHA publications and Wage and
Hour publications were provided to the Mexican Consulate and they have taken
those publications to mobile consulates across the state during this
evaluation period.
Promoting the National Dialogue on Workplace Safety and Health
- Events:
N/A
- Products
The group proposed the development of a video that could run in a continuous
loop at the consulate with information on OSHA and Wage and Hour. The idea was
forwarded to the National Office to request assistance to ensure that the
video was professional quality. This request remains in the National Office
and no activity has taken place.
IV. Results
The alliance has brought together not only the signatory groups but other groups who interact with the Hispanic population in Iowa. The group continues to work to develop a train-the-trainer session where the signatory groups will train other groups on the services they offer. The goal of this training is to educate organizations in Iowa that interact with the Hispanic community which will allow for better referrals to the correct group or Agency.
| Type of Activity (Conference,
Training, Print and Electronic Distribution, etc.) |
Number of Individuals Reached
or Trained |
| Print distribution at mobile consulates for
OSHA and Wage and Hour Information |
200 |
| Total |
200 |
IV. Upcoming Milestones
Due to extended absences of some members of the group activity was limited during this year. We hope to renew the Alliance in 2009 and have more involvement.
Information has been taken from the OSHA website and placed into Safety Information Sheets. These sheets were translated into Spanish and the Consulate can hand out to individuals visiting the mobile Consulate.
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