The Small Business Model Program is an initiative of the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation (CHSWC) to improve the health and safety conditions for workers in California. In response to its Labor Code mandate {Labor Code § 77 (a)}, CHSWC has engaged in many studies to examine health, safety and workers' compensation systems in California. CHSWC has concentrated these efforts on areas that are most critical and of concern to the community, including small businesses.

*Of the 610,659 full-time business firms with employees in California in 1993, 99.2 percent are small businesses (independent businesses with fewer than 500 workers. In addition to the number of employer businesses, there were also 1,403,000 full-time self-employed persons in California in 1995, for a total estimated full-time business population of 2,013,659 firms.

* Retrieved from http://www.sba.gov/gopher/Local-Information/96Pro/proca.txt

The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program with the University of California Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) have developed a short training program (2-hours) designed to help restaurant managers or supervisors work with their staff to design a health and safety plan tailored to their restaurant. The information you will pass on to your employees includes: learning about restaurant hazards and potential solutions and how to identify hazards in their own restaurant.

We invite you to join us in an effective new project to help restaurant owners and managers keep their workforce safe and prevent costly injuries.

• Engage workers in a safety program.
• Identify ways to prevent injuries in their restaurant.
• Meet Cal/OSHA training requirements.

• Resources to help restaurant owners be in compliance with Cal/OSHA standards
• Labor laws relevant to hiring young workers
• Interactive, short activities
• Fact sheets
• Safety Orientation Checklist

For a flyer, click here.