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Title: Worker-trainers as evaluators: a case study of a union-based health and safety education program.

Authors: Daltuva, Judith A; Williams, Melina; Vazquez, Luis; Robins, Thomas G; Fernandez, Jennifer A

Published In Health Promot Pract, (2004 Apr)

Abstract: The United Automobile Workers uses worker-trainers to deliver health and safety education training to its members. The union has experimented with worker-trainers participating in program evaluation. Worker-trainers participated in the design and conduct of a telephone survey of training impact, and of an on-site survey of trainee perceptions of a large-scale program. Worker evaluators were able to analyze data and give a highly successful presentation of results to trainees at the large-scale program. The incorporation of workers as evaluators is a key step toward the goal of worker empowerment. The involvement of program participants in their program's evaluation can enhance the quality and usefulness of work-site health and safety programs in general.

PubMed ID: 15090173 Exiting the NIEHS site

MeSH Terms: Inservice Training/methods*; Labor Unions*; Occupational Health*; Organizational Case Studies*; Peer Group; Program Evaluation/methods*; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

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