May 2021

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New COVID-19 Educational Media for Workers

We’re excited to introduce our worker-focused digital media tools that raise awareness about COVID-19 workplace safety, employer responsibilities, and worker rights. The materials include a video, social media graphics and animated cards, an interactive digital story, an educational comic, posters, and web banners.

Please help us reach California workers with these tools! We encourage you to share them widely with your networks on social media, your website, and beyond.

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A sample of our digital tools: an animated video, I'm Afraid to Get COVID at Work and Hector's Story, a digital scrollable story done in partnership with Labor and Workforce Development Agency and featured on saferatwork.ca.gov.

These engaging tools include messages that explain workers’ rights as found in the Cal/OSHA COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards and that promote the COVID-19 vaccines. They feature workers from industries and occupations where there have been high numbers of COVID-19 cases, outbreaks, or fatalities, including construction, restaurants and groceries, food processing, and transportation.

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Sam Gets Up to Speed, a digital comic featured on saferatwork.ca.gov.

Our process to create the tools included:

Interviewing union reps and advocates to determine messaging needs
Consulting with subject matter experts and going through an extensive review process
Collaborating with Labor and Workforce Development Agency
Soliciting and incorporating feedback from workers and union reps on draft tools
Working with a branding and animation studio to complete final products

We hope that you and the workers you engage find these tools helpful. Thank you in advance for helping us to share them with California workers.

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Resources

CDPH Occupational Health Branch COVID-19 and the Workplace webpage – find our suite of tools and other helpful resources

California For All: Safer at Work campaign – organized guidance and materials on COVID-19 workplace safety and worker rights

California For All: Vaccines – information on COVID-19 vaccines, including eligibility, safety, and efficacy

Share on Social Media

Hey California workers! What’s required at your workplace to keep you safe from #COVID19? Saferatwork.ca.gov has all the details. #WorkerSafety #WorkerHealth #EssentialWorkers

All California workers have the right to protection from safety and health hazards, like #COVID-19. Learn more about worker rights, employer responsibilities, and safety practices relating to #COVID19. #WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #EssentialWorkers

You should return home from work as healthy as you arrived. #COVID19 #WorkerHealth #WorkerSafety #EssentialWorkers

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OHB improves California worker health and safety through prevention activities. We gather information on job hazards, test new approaches to prevent worker injury and illness, and help make changes at the workplace.

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