LOSH Program
The UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health (LOSH) Program is a widely recognized center for workplace health and safety promotion which includes worker training, educational curricula development, technical assistance and occupational health policy research. Established in 1978, with the receipt of a grant from Federal OSHA, LOSH currently focuses on initiatives with recent immigrant workers and adolescent workers, both considered vulnerable populations. These initiatives include worker education/training and qualitative research to further identify the problems these workers face on the job. In December 2002 LOSH released the results of research conducted in 2001 in a report entitled “Voices from the Margins: Immigrant Workers’ Perceptions of Health and Safety in the Workplace.” In addition, LOSH is developing a Spanish language health and safety resource library, with an online component, for use by such workers and their representatives.

Southern California Education and Research Center
The Southern California NIOSH Education and Research Center is joint with the UCI COEH and is one of 16 multidisciplinary centers in the United States. This Center provides student support for training in occupational nursing, occupational and environmental medicine, and industrial hygiene as well as providing an extensive continuing education program. This program has been highly successful since the mid-1980s.

ERC Continuing Education
Through Continuing Education, the Southern California ERC reaches out to all levels of management within business and industry, to leaders in government, to other academic institutions, and to workers to increase their awareness of workplace health and safety issues and safe work practices.

Short-term training represents the expressed needs and interests of practicing occupational health and safety specialists, management and labor representatives. Courses are designed around the concept of a systematic approach to health and safety education -- integrating occupational and environmental health and safety into the business process. Training is conducted directly or through co-sponsorship with academic institutions, specialty societies or agencies within the Southern California region. Courses are approved for continuing education credit appropriate to each discipline.

Fogarty International Training Program
The UCLA-Mexico/Latin American Training Program sponsored by the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center supports a wide range of training opportunities in environmental and occupational health in Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil.