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A Worker’s Guide to Health and Safety

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The section “Work dangers and solutions” of the upcoming A Worker’s Guide to Health and Safety is now available for free download. We would like to know more about how you are using this material (or why you are not using it!) so we can improve it to better meet your needs. Please email us at workersbook@hesperian.org with any feedback, questions, or suggestions.

For health dangers of working in free trade zone factories discussed by types of hazards, see this version:

• Table of Contents and Pages 1-35
• Pages 36-72
• Pages 73-109
• Pages 110-146
• Pages 147-182

For an English-language draft of work hazards specifically aimed at garment workers, see:

• Table of Contents and Page 1
• Chapter 1: Your work, your health, and a healthy community
  (Pages 2-14)
• Chapter 2: Free Trade – bad medicine (Pages 16-19)
• Chapter 3: Where to begin? (Pages 20-32)
• Chapter 4: Organizing for change (Pages 34-46)
• Chapter 5: Work Dangers and Solutions (Page 47-122)

For a Spanish-language draft of these materials, click here