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Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Box 0843 San Francisco, CA 94143-0843

http://coeh.berkeley.edu/Community_Service/community_service.htm

The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California San Francisco provides clinical services, consultation to industry and labor, conducts basic and applied research in occupational and environmental health, and trains health specialists in medicine, nursing, ergonomics, and industrial hygiene. The Division is a component of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), along with programs at the University of California Berkeley and Davis.

Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service

California Department of Health/Industrial
1515 Clay Street, 19th Floor
Oakland, California 94612
For Business Information: (510) 622-4300

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ohb/HESIS/Default.htm

For workplace hazard information, please write.

The Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS) reviews and evaluates information on health effects of toxic substances in the workplace only. Provides early warning of newly identified occupational health hazards, so that workers, employers, health professionals, and government agencies can take action to reduce exposures. Responds to inquiries concerning the health effects of toxic substances in the workplace, safe work practices, health and safety controls, and methods for monitoring workers' health. Inquiries must be work-related. HESIS occasionally provides planning assistance and speakers for occupational health training programs. Staff includes toxicologists, physicians, a health educator, and industrial hygienists.

Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP)

University of California, Berkeley
School of Public Health
2223 Fulton Street, Fourth Floor
Berkeley, California 94720-5120
(510) 642-5507
Fax: (510) 643-5698

http://socrates.berkeley.edu:7047/cgi-bin/passtest.cgi?prog955767361.dtl

The Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP), established in 1974, provides health and safety training, information, and assistance to unions, workers, joint labor-management groups, and health professionals. Designed to aid in identifying and controlling hazards in the workplace, services include:

Training - We can work with your union or group to design and present training on toxic substances, the "right-to-know," hazardous waste, stress, workplace design, legal rights, video display terminals, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the workplace, and other hazards specific to your industry or occupation.

Technical Assistance - We can respond to requests for health and safety information, consult with your group to help you meet your own needs; show health and safety committees how to function effectively, survey a workplace for hazards, or refer to an occupational physician, nurse, or industrial hygienist.

Videotapes, Slide/Tape Shows, and Publications - We offer for sale a wide range of original materials on many health and safety topics.

Library - An up-to-date health and safety resource center is open to the public. It includes special collections on video display terminals (VDTs), AIDS in the workplace, and hazardous waste.

Continuing Education Program -We offer conferences and short courses for occupational health professionals, as well as for professionals from other fields.

Special Projects - LOHP conducts several long-term projects to address emerging health and safety needs, including the AIDS Labor Education Project, the VDT/New Technology Project, and the Hazardous Waste Project.

A program of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, LOHP is also affiliated with the Center for Labor Research and Education at the University's Institute of Industrial Relations.

For information about LOHP services, contact:

Labor Occupational Health Program
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
School of Public Health
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California 94720-5120
(510) 642-5507
Fax: (510) 643-5698

Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program

UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program
6350 B Public Policy Building
P. O. Box 951478
Los Angeles, California 90095-1478
(310) 794-0369
http://www.losh.ucla.edu/

The Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program offers training courses for workers, union members, and health professionals on health and safety as requested; large conferences on current issues in occupational health; a quarterly newsletter, "Workers Connection," brochures on health and safety topics (some in Spanish); technical and research assistance; and student interns specializing in occupational safety and health. LOSH provides educational, audiovisual, and written materials as well.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

Headquarters:
1600 Clifton Road, NE
Building 1, Room 3007 (D35)
Atlanta, Georgia - 30333
(404) 639-3771
Fax: (404) 639-2170

http:// www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

Western Region:
California, Nevada, Arizona, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa, Pacific Trust Territories (formerly Region IX) residents contact:
Denver Federal Center
P.O. Box 25226
Building 53, Room I-1405
Denver, Colorado 80025-0226
(303) 236-6032
FAX: (303) 236-6072

Division of Surveillance and Field Studies
Alice Hamilton Laboratories (DSHEFS)
5555 Ridge Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45213
(513) 841-4428

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts research on various safety and health problems, provides technical assistance to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and recommends standards for OSHA's adoption. NIOSH investigates toxic substances and develops criteria for the use of such substances in the workplace. While conducting its research, NIOSH may make workplace investigations, gather testimonies from employers, and measure and report employee exposure to potentially hazardous materials. It may also require employers to provide medical examinations and tests to determine the incidence of occupational illness among employees. When such examinations and tests are required by NIOSH for research purposes, they may be paid for by NIOSH rather than the employer.

Information Resources Branch
Education and Information Division
4676 Columbia Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45226
(513) 533-8377
Fax: (513) 533-8347
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html

Many NIOSH documents and those published by other federal agencies are also available from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) or the Government Printing Office as follows:

National Technical Information Service
5285 Port Royal Road
Springfield, Virginia 22161 (Write to establish deposit account $25.00 minimum.)
(703) 487-4780 Research Services -Call to check for availability of document.
(703) 487-4650 Call to order documents.

Government Printing Office
Washington, DC 20402
(202) 783-3238

Occupational and Environmental Health, Davis, Center for

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
TB-168, University of California at Davis
Davis, California 95616-8638
(530) 752-2793
Fax: (530) 752-3239
http://www-epm.ucdavis.edu

The goal of the Center is to increase understanding of the causes of human health problems due to occupational and environmental hazards and to work towards reducing morbidity and mortality from these hazards through research, education, clinical service and community outreach. The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH) at the University of California, Davis exists within the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine and utilizes a large number of experts from multiple disciplines to achieve its goal. These include occupational medicine physicians, epidemiologists, toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and information/communication experts. Research in the Center is directed at a wide range of occupational and environmental health hazards in Northern California as well as hazards affecting workers elsewhere in the United States and internationally. A major area of research, teaching, and outreach effort is in agricultural health and safety. This work, largely done within the University of California Agricultural Health and Safety Center at Davis which is located in the Department, focuses on identification and prevention of health and safety hazards to farmers and farmworkers with specific attention to the western region of the United States. Other areas of research in the Center focus on occupational and environmental respiratory, reproductive, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal diseases and injuries. Occupational reproductive hazards and cancer are also areas of major research efforts.

The center's clinical programs include the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of occupational diseases at clinic settings in Sacramento and Davis. These services include clinical diagnosis and treatment of occupational illness and injury, work site evaluations, industrial hygiene services, QME examinations and occupational medicine and preventive services for companies, government agencies and unions.

There are numerous teaching programs within the Center including occupational and environmental health training for undergraduate and graduate students, medical students, practicing physicians and public health workers. A Master's and Doctoral degree are given in epidemiology or toxicology with an emphasis on occupational and environmental health.

Occupational and Environmental Health, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for

University of California, Los Angeles
School of Public Health
10833 LeConte Avenue, 46-070 CHS
UCLA School of Public Health
Los Angeles, California 90024-1772
(310) 206-6920
Fax: (310) 206-9903

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/coeh/

The University of California, Los Angeles’ (UCLA) (COEH) is housed in the School of Public Health and embodies faculty and staff from the Schools of Public Health, Nursing, and Medicine and the Institute of Industrial Relations. The mission of COEH is to train occupational health professionals, conduct research on occupational and environmental health, and provide community outreach through continuing education, clinical services, and technical consultation. The Center is equipped with elaborate laboratory facilities to conduct toxicity tests and to identify and quantify organic compounds.

UCLA Center's activities include: (1) Graduate-level and multi-disciplinary educational programs to train occupational hygienists, environmental health scientists, toxicologists, occupational physicians and nurses, health educators and epidemiologists; (2) Research to identify and address occupational and environmental health problems in California; and (3) Investigations and training to identify and address occupational and environmental health problems in Latin America and Pacific Rim countries. The specific goal of the Toxicology program at UCLA is to understand what agents provide a threat to organisms and how they function in order to minimize their impact. The program is multidisciplinary in subject, utilizing information from the fields of pharmacology, biochemistry, chemistry, physiology, and pathology.

The LOSH Program and Occupational Health Clinical Center are integral parts of the COEH, which provide service outreach to the Community. Available services include (1) community service and outreach, technical assistance and clinical referral services for workers, unions, the private sector, and the public on occupational illness, disease and injury prevention; (2) consultative assistance to physicians, nurses, and occupational hygienists; (3) faculty evaluation of the work environment with potential occupational health hazards and surveillance of industrial workers exposed to hazardous substances; and (4) continuing education opportunities for professionals, and educational programs for workers exposed to potential occupational health hazards. See separate listings for more detailed program descriptions.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine Clinic, University of California, Davis (East Wing)

Employee Health Services
2221 Stockton Blvd., Suite A
Sacramento, California 95817
(916) 734-3572

The clinic evaluates work-related illness and injury, both industrial and agricultural. It conducts screening of working populations, medical surveillance programs, workplace evaluation, and medico-legal consultation and/or referral available. Hours are Thursday afternoons from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Occupational Health Center, University of California Irvine

University of California
19722 MacArthur Blvd.
Irvine, California 92715

http://www.ucihealth.com/healthcareservices/occupat.htm

http://www.ucihealth.com/healthcareservices/occupat-clinic.htm

The Occupational Health Center (OHC) is headquartered at the University of California campus in Irvine. The center provides professional education, research, and community services.

IOHC's professional education includes specialties in industrial hygiene, occupational epidemiology, occupational health nursing, occupational and environmental medicine, occupational and environmental toxicology, and occupational and environmental health education. OHC's community services include consultative assistance to nurses and physicians working in occupational health engineering, industrial hygiene and safety evaluation, diagnosis of referred patients either by individual occupational medicine physicians or through the University of California, Irvine, Occupational Medicine Clinics, toxicity information, a resource center for published materials, a classroom space for community groups concerned with occupational health issues, environmental community health information, research into causes of occupational disease and cancer, and involvement with a regional tumor registry.

Eligibility requirements:
For professional programs, check with OHC medical services at the University of California, Irvine (available only through referral).
Bilingual services: Spanish

College of Medicine
Irvine, California 92717
(714) 856-7438

Occupational Health Service, University of California, San Francisco/San Francisco General Hospital

Kathleen Turner-Hubbard
kturner@sfomed.ucsf.edu kturner@sfomed.ucsf.edu

SFO Medical Service
UC Box 1376
San Francisco, CA 94143-1376

Clinic (to make an appointment): (650) 821-5600
Administrative office: (650) 821-5600
Fax: (650) 794-5663

http://www.flysfo.com/guide_nonflash/template_infoview.asp?shop_id=302

A joint effort between the San Francisco International Airport (SFO), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), SFO Medical Service is a full service health care provider located in SFO's International Terminal. Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, SFO Medical Service offers medical services to the local community, airport workers, travelers, and just about anyone else who drops in!

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Box 0843
San Francisco, California 94143-0843
(415) 206-5200
Fax: (415) 206-8949
http://coeh.berkeley.edu/ucsfoem/

The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco provides clinical services, consultation to industry and labor, conducts basic and applied research in occupational and environmental health, and trains health specialists in medicine, nursing, ergonomics, and industrial hygiene. The Division is a component of the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), along with programs at the University of California Berkeley and Davis.

Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

Occupational Health Branch
California Department of Health Services
1515 Clay Street, Suite 1901
Oakland, California 94612
(510) 622-4332 (leave message)

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ohb/OLPPP/Default.htm

The Occupational Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (OLPPP) maintains a registry of laboratory-reported cases of work-related lead poisoning in California adults. Periodic analysis identifies patterns of lead poisoning among individual industries and population groups. The program provides follow-up to occupational lead poisoning cases, to identify and control sources of lead exposure, and to investigate whether workplace lead exposures may result in take-home exposure and lead poisoning in household members. OLPPP develops educational materials and provides training about the hazards of lead to workers, employers, and health professionals. The program also makes recommendations for the prevention of lead poisoning. Legislation passed in 1991 established OLPPP, and provided for funding of the program through an annual fee assessed on lead-using industries.

Occupational Medicine Branch, University of California, Los Angeles

Center for the Health Sciences, Room 37-131
University of California
1099 Heyburn Avenue, Suite 344
Los Angeles, California 90024-7027
(310) 206-2086

Clinical evaluation of occupational and environmental illness and injury. Medical surveillance of worker populations, worksite walk through surveys, applied research, and preventive and medico-legal consultative services are available. On-site worker training and medical testing can be arranged.

Occupational Medicine Clinics, University of California, Irvine

University of California at Irvine
19722 MacArthur Boulevard
Irvine, California 92715

Services and programs include patient evaluation and diagnosis, toxicity information, medical referral, and medical treatment.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration, California Division of

Headquarters
455 Golden Gate Avenue, 10th Floor
San Francisco, California 94102
(415) 703-5100
Fax: (415) 703-5135
http://www.dir.ca.gov

Regional Offices:
Anaheim... 2100 E. Katella, Suite 125 Anaheim, California 92806, (714) 939-8611
Van Nuys. .6150 Van Nuys Boulevard, Suite. 410, Van Nuys, California 91401, (818) 901-5730
Sacramento .2424 Arden Way, Suite 125, Sacramento, California 95825, (916) 263-2803
Santa Rosa 1221 Farmers Lane, Suite 300, Santa Rosa, California 95405, (707) 576-2419

District offices are located in the following cities:
Anaheim, Concord, Fresno, Los Angeles, Oakland, Pico Rivera, Redding, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Santa Rosa, Torrance, Van Nuys, Ventura, West Covina.

Field offices are located in the following cities:
Chico, Eureka, and Modesto.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (CAL-OSHA) consultation service provides free on-site consultation to employers and advice and information on occupational safety and health to employers and employee groups. The consultation service is not involved in Cal-OSHA enforcement activities.

Headquarters
2211 Park Towne Circle, Suite 4
Sacramento, California 95825
Fax: (916) 574-0619
On-Site Assistance Program: Toll-Free: (800) 963-9424
http://www.dir.ca.gov

Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor

Office of Administrative Services (Headquarters)
200 Constitution Avenue, North West, Room N-3101
Washington, DC 20210
(202) 693-2121
http://www.osha.gov

OSHA Region 9
455 Golden Gate Avenue, 10th floor
San Francisco, California 94102
(415) 703-5270
FAX: (415) 703-4596

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration at the U.S. Department of Labor enforces national occupational health and safety standards. In states such as California that have their own programs, federal OSHA may only have jurisdiction for federally owned properties and services and for maritime activities.

Occupational Safety and Health, Santa Clara Center for

760 North First Street, 2nd Floor
San Jose, California 95112
(408) 998-4050
Fax: (408) 998-4051

The Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health is a non-profit organization that provides information on health effects of toxic substances, including health and safety information on the electronics industry. The center provides health and safety advocacy information and movie and slide show rentals on occupational safety and health. The center permits public use of library resources. The center distributes newsletter and conducts workshops and trainings on specific occupational hazards, especially for workers of limited literacy and those for whom English is a second language.

Video Display Terminals Coalition

Labor Occupational Health Program
2223 Fulton Street, Fourth Floor
Berkeley, California 94720-5120
(510) 642-5507

Statewide coalition of VDT users, unions, and health and safety professionals. Provides on-site training sessions, technical assistance, and publications on video display terminal health and safety issues. Extensive library with files open to public. Publishes quarterly newsletter, Video Views, containing updates on legislation, research technology, etc.

Workers Compensation Insurance Carriers

Workers compensation insurance companies often provide occupational health and safety services to policyholders for free or at reduced cost. Many have industrial hygiene consultants who can provide advice or on-site consultation and evaluation regarding chemical hazards

 

 
 
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