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Document ID (ISN)104886
CIS number 06-261
Year 2003
Convention or series no.
Title HIV/AIDS workplace tools: Labor leader's kit
Bibliographic information Business and Labor Resource Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003, USA, 2003. Collection of resource materials.
Internet access http://www.hivatwork.org/tools/labor.cfm [in English]
Abstract This kit provides labour leaders and workers with the necessary resources for building a workplace programme for HIV/AIDS. It covers the development of policies on HIV/AIDS to educate workers and their families and encourages workers to promote community service. The kit includes basic facts about HIV/AIDS, information on Federal laws and individual brochures on worker training, benefits, and education. Also included are profiles of unions that have responded to HIV/AIDS, the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, facts on preventing occupational exposure and additional resources.
Descriptors (primary) health programmes; role of workers' organizations; immunodeficiency syndrome; USA
Descriptors (secondary) legal aspects; training material; infection control
Document type C - Training manuals, audiovisual material
Country / State or ProvinceUSA
Subject(s) Medicine, hygiene and first aid
Broad subject area(s) Biological hazards
Browse category(ies) Workplace health promotion
HIV/AIDS