Standing FACE to FACE and getting the full picture.
NIOSH provides grants to nine State agencies for its Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (FACE), which provides in-depth
investigation reports for a small number of work-related fatality incidents. USMWF will be aligning the photos and tributes from our Faces
campaign with these
State-FACE reports. Although only a small fraction of all work-related fatalities are assessed through this FACE program,
we do want to make the connections to give an identity to the deceased worker and to increase the opportunity to learn lessons from a family's loss.
When: Monday, July 26 – Thursday, July 29, 2010
Where: George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services
How: Travel, shared accommodations, and meals will be provided
Why: To become advocates for your family and others dealing with workplace health and safety issues.
Details here.
Facilitators/Instructors: Peter Dooley and Dr. Celeste Monforton
Bring the family on us!
Welcome To USMWF
Message
Families who have a loss need to be acknowledged. We will not allow others
to discount us any longer. We are the brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers and
children of America. Families and their losses are not a number or a statistic.
Our lost loved ones were the very ones making your profit. We are not asking
for more than we are entitled to, Our Right, The Right to a Safe and Healthful
Workplace. We need leaders to restore our faith in governmental humanity.
We cannot thank the Public Welfare Foundation
enough for having faith in our efforts and awarding us
a 2-year grant to support this website, our advocacy efforts and travel support
for family members to fight for safety and health reforms.
The Faces Campaign
Fred R. Barnard said, “One picture is worth a thousand words.”
How many words does it take to peer into the eyes of tragedy or feel the heartache and
pain that is set in motion after our loved one was lost. The Faces Campaign is intended
to give workplace fatalities a face, gain awareness and educate workers, employees,
organizations and our government. We invite you to add a face of someone lost due to a
workplace incident to tammy@usmwf.org or usmwf@yahoo.com (if you use Microsoft outlook
sometimes i do not receive your information so if you don't have a reply in a timely
manner please try my alt email). We would love to get the following information:
Photo of Worker
Name
Age
Birth date
Loss date
Place of employment
Your name
Your relationship with lost worker
All is not required however we do need a name of both your loss and you in order to post a face.
Have you lost a loved one and want to get involved? Take the survey here for
pdf and here for
word then send it to
Debi Fergen
*Please note if you send in your loved ones photo it may be featured in print and/or online.
Protecting America's Workers Act
H.R.2067 (Protecting America's Workers Act) was once part of the
Family Bill of Rights and has some new and exciting elements that have been fought for since
USMWF's Beginning.
Many family members united in 2006 and put together a number of basic rights
we felt was necessary for healing, functionality and a truly transparent
investigative system. H.R. 2067 will change the penalties and prosecution process
and evaluate the penalties every four years, the employer must notify OSHA is there
is an incident that causes a serious injury or death and preserve the evidence, OSHA
may not classify any violation as unclassified, along with informing the families
of their rights in the process, giving the injured and killed worker a voice by
giving the family the right to a representative that will have the opportunity to
meet with the secretary and right to participate in proceedings, be notified of all
correspondences between the employer and OSHA, and the families will gain the
citation report without cost.
The Families being included in H.R. 2067 is historic and all that have been
involved whether they have worked on this particular goal or other rights for the
families you should raise your head with pride that your voice and the voice of your
loved one has been heard loud and clear.
Please take a moment to look over
H.R.2067 it is important
pieces of legislation and deserve our attention. We recently added a
model letter
in support of the PAWA for the families and we encourage you to send these out to your
reps and if you need help as always contact someone at USMWF. We have also included a
cleaned up version of H.R.2067 Protecting America's Workers Act so it is a little
easier for you all to read.
The Waiting List
The Waiting List is a Multimedia story-telling project which tells the story of individuals waiting for organ transplants.
The music used on site is complements of Krittybean an amazingly talented singer. You can view a large array
(from country to opera) of Krittybean's music is located
here.
