REMARKS
Majority Leader Amanda Farías advocates for expanding OSHA training in multiple languages
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Majority Leader Amanda Farías presents Resolution 521, which calls for expanding OSHA authorized trainings and trainers in 10 designated languages spoken in New York City. She emphasizes the importance of language access in safety training, particularly for immigrant workers in hazardous industries like construction.
- Farías stresses that language barriers should not be a reason for inadequate training or workplace injuries and deaths.
- The resolution aims to ensure compliance with New York City's site safety training and OSHA standards.
- Farías urges her colleagues to vote yes and sign on to pass the resolution.
Amanda Farías
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Thank you so much, chair de la Rosa.
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RESO 521 calls on the US Department of Labor to expand the number of occupational safety and health administration OSHA authorized trainings and trainers in the 10 designated languages spoken across New York City.
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For many immigrant workers, particularly in construction and other hazardous industries, lack of access to safety training in their native language can be a matter of life or death.
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By calling for more trainers in multiple languages, we are taking an important step toward making sure immigrant workers can receive the critical safety training they need, training that complies with New York City's site safety training and OSHA standards.
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In industries where safety risks are high, especially construction, language barriers should never be the reason workers are not adequately trained or, worse, result in injury or death.
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Expanding language access to OSHA trainers ensures that every worker, regardless of the language they speak, can stay safe on the job.
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Thank you so much to the chair for allowing me time to speak on the resolution.
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I urge my colleagues to vote yes and and to sign on for passing this important for passing this important resolution today.
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And, I look forward to the result.
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Thank you so much.
Carmen N. De La Rosa
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Thank you so much, majority leader.
