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Green Party Platform:
Workplace Safety

All workers have a right to a safe and humane working environment.

A lack of adequate enforcement of California's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws and/or insufficient standards put many workers at risk.

The Green Party supports workplace safety:

• Protect and enforce California's OSHA laws. We insist on adequate testing of equipment, and we should adequately fund enforcement procedures.

• Inform workers of workplace hazards. Employers have a responsibility to protect workers from those hazards.

• Legislate full funding for worker safety programs passed at both the state and federal levels.

• Insist on agricultural practices that don't endanger farm workers.

• Put agricultural practices under the jurisdiction of OSHA.