Tune in Tomorrow: Telemundo Spotlights Construction Worker Safety

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/03/31/tune-in-tomorrow-telemundo-spotlights-construction-worker-safety/

by Mike Hall, Mar 31, 2008

Tomorrow night, Telemundo’s hit telenovela “Pecados Ajenos” will spotlight construction worker safety. The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) worked with the show’s writers and producers to help develop a storyline that has real life impact on the Latino community.



CPWR’s latest edition of the Construction Chart Book (available online beginning tomorrow, see more information below) reports Hispanic construction workers are killed on the job more frequently than non-Hispanic workers and when injured, they receive far less in workers’ compensation.

The show’s safety theme is timely, just weeks before Workers Memorial Day, an annual commemoration that honors those killed and injured on the job (click here for Workers Memorial Day materials and more information).

CPWR (founded by the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department), along with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Hollywood Health & Society, helped develop the prime-time soap’s safety themes and produced public service announcements that will air during commercial breaks. They also developed a Spanish language website that provides safety and health information for construction workers. The site, MiTrabajoSeguro.org, will go live tomorrow.

“Pecados Ajenos” airs tomorrow night and Wednesday night at 10 p.m. EDT and 9 p.m. CDT on Telemundo stations nationwide.

Also tomorrow, CPWR’s fourth edition of the Construction Chart Book: The U.S. Construction Industry and its Workers becomes available as a free download on CPWR’s website. Among the new topics in this edition is the section on the surge of Hispanic workers in the construction workforce.

FULL story at link.