North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project Records, 1976-2000s

Collection Number: 04578

Collection Title: North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project Records, 1976-2000s

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Size	76.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 36,000 items)
Abstract	The North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH) is a private, nonprofit membership organization of workers, union locals, and health and legal professionals. Chiefly working through local unions, NCOSH volunteers and staff offer training and education relating to toxic chemicals, safety hazards, stress, VDTs, repetitive motion, reproductive hazards, workers' compensation, and other issues. NCOSH also assists unions in strengthening health and safety contract language and effectively using NIOSH and N.C. OSHA. NCOSH offers technical assistance and research services relating to specific complaints, maintains reference materials, and makes medical and legal referrals as appropriate. Fighting for stronger OSHA standards, building coalitions, and gaining public support for union safety and health struggles are parts of NCOSH's political mission. NCOSH office files, include membership lists, financial records, investigative files, and materials relating to labor history. Also included are videotapes and slide presentations, many of them about asbestos in the workplace.
Creator	North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project.
Language	English.

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Restrictions to Access: Unprocessed, but may be used, except for audio/video materials.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project Records #4578, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance: Received from Mark Schulz, executive director, in June 1991; Tom O'Conner, executive director, in January 1995 (Acc. 95008), June 1995 (Acc. 95075), January 1996 (Acc. 96007), July 1997 (Acc. 97086), June 1999 (Acc. 98377), and July 2001 (Acc. 99014); and Lorrie Bradley in July 2002 (Acc. 99288).

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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The North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project (NCOSH) is a private, nonprofit membership organization of workers, union locals, and health and legal professionals. Chiefly working through local unions, NCOSH volunteers and staff offer training and education relating to toxic chemicals, safety hazards, stress, VDTs, repetitive motion, reproductive hazards, workers' compensation, and other issues. NCOSH also assists unions in strengthening health and safety contract language and effectively using NIOSH and N.C. OSHA. NCOSH offers technical assistance and research services relating to specific complaints, maintains reference materials, and makes medical and legal referrals as appropriate. Fighting for stronger OSHA standards, building coalitions, and gaining public support for union safety and health struggles are parts of NCOSH's political mission.

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North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project office files include membership lists, financial records, investigative files, and materials relating to labor history, occupational diseases, safety regulations, industrial safety, industrial hygiene, collective bargaining and other issues focussing on North Carolina workplaces. Also included are videotapes and slide presentations, many of them about asbestos in the workplace.

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About 36,000 items.

Box 1-16	Office files #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 1-16 Box 1 Box 2 Box 3 Box 4 Box 5 Box 6 Box 7 Box 8 Box 9 Box 10 Box 11 Box 12 Box 13 Box 14 Box 15 Box 16
Box 17	Videotapes and slide presentations #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 17
Box 18-19	Office files (Acc. 94075) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 18-19 Box 18 Box 19
Box 20-23	Office files (Acc. 96007) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 20-23 Box 20 Box 21 Box 22 Box 23
Box 24	Financial records (Acc. 96007 #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 24
Box 25	Manuals, notebooks, cassette tapes, computer disk (Acc. 96007) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 25
Box 26-30	Office files (Acc. 97086) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 26-30 Box 26 Box 27 Box 28 Box 29 Box 30
Box 31-38	Office files, videos, films, slide presentations (Acc. 98377). Note that most of the audio/video materials (in boxes 35-38) were not produced by NCOSH, but are commercial productions or productions of federal or other agencies. #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 31-38 Box 31 Box 32 Box 33 Box 34 Box 35 Box 36 Box 37 Box 38
Box 39-40	Office files (Acc. 99014) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 39-40 Box 39 Box 40
Box 41-51	Office files (Acc. 99288) #04578, Series: "Records, 1976-2000s." Box 41-51 Box 41 Box 42 Box 43 Box 44 Box 45 Box 46 Box 47 Box 48 Box 49 Box 50 Box 51

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Collection Number: 04578 Collection Title: North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project Records, 1976-2000s

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Collection Number: 04578

Collection Title: North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Project Records, 1976-2000s