School of Public Health
Labor Occupational Health Program
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-5120
rbaker@berkeley.edu
510-643-8900 Fax: 510-643-5698
www.lohp.org
Current Interests
• Worker training and education
• Young workers/Teenage workforce
• Participatory/Collaborative community-based research
Key Publications
• Teran, S., Strochlic, R., Bush, D., Baker, R., Meyer, J. (2008). Reaching teen farm workers with health and safety information: An evaluation of a high school ESL curriculum. Journal of Agriculture Safety and Health. 14(2): 147-162
• Baker, R.(Winter 2007). Book review: Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (Morgensen, V. editor). Labor Studies Journal Vo. 31, No. 4: 79-80
• Teran, S., Baker, R., El-Askari, E. (2007). Immigrant Workes in Construction: Sharing Lessons Learned in Our Unions, report for the Center for Construction Research and Training/ CPWR, Silver Spring, Maryland.
• Baker, R., Stock, L. (2005, November). The role of labor unions in occupational and environmental health. In Levy et. al (Eds.) Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury (5th ed., Chapter 34). Philadelphia, PA.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Baker, R. (2005). Occupational health and safety education. In Weeks, J., et al (Eds.), Preventing occupational disease and injury (2nd ed., Chapter 13). Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association.
• Hammond, K., Gold, E., Baker, R., et al. (2005, July). Respiratory health effects related to occupational spray painting and welding. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 47(7): 728-739.
• Stock, L., Szudy, B., Dewey, R., Baker, R. (2005). Worker occupational health and safety specialist curriculum: Participant guide and instructor manual. San Francisco, CA: California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation.
• Tau Lee, P., Baker, R. (2002). Hotel workers take action: The power of popular education applied to health and safety. In Teaching for change: Popular education in the labor movement. Los Angeles, CA and Silver Spring, MD: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and George Meany Center, National Labor College.
• Teran, S., Baker, R., Sum, J. (2002). Improving health and safety conditions for California's immigrant workers: Report and recommendations of the California Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition. Berkeley, CA: Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California.
Teaching
• Community-based labor education courses
• Lecturer in various COEH courses
Public and University Service
• Director of several major projects, including: California Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program; Working Immigrant Safety and Health (WISH) Coalition; National Young Worker Health and Safety Resource Center.
• NIOSH NORA II Sector Council, Retail and Wholesale Industries
• Center to Protect Workers Rights, AFl-CIO Building Trades Division, Technical Advisory Board
• Women's Committee Representative, University and College Labor Education Association, Professional Council
• Technical Advisory Board, Center to Protect Workers Rights (AFL-CIO Building Trades)
• Baker, R.(Winter 2007). Book review: Worker Safety Under Siege: Labor, Capital and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World (Morgensen, V. editor). Labor Studies Journal Vo. 31, No. 4: 79-80
• Teran, S., Baker, R., El-Askari, E. (2007). Immigrant Workes in Construction: Sharing Lessons Learned in Our Unions, report for the Center for Construction Research and Training/ CPWR, Silver Spring, Maryland.
• Baker, R., Stock, L. (2005, November). The role of labor unions in occupational and environmental health. In Levy et. al (Eds.) Occupational and environmental health: recognizing and preventing disease and injury (5th ed., Chapter 34). Philadelphia, PA.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
• Baker, R. (2005). Occupational health and safety education. In Weeks, J., et al (Eds.), Preventing occupational disease and injury (2nd ed., Chapter 13). Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association.
• Hammond, K., Gold, E., Baker, R., et al. (2005, July). Respiratory health effects related to occupational spray painting and welding. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 47(7): 728-739.
• Stock, L., Szudy, B., Dewey, R., Baker, R. (2005). Worker occupational health and safety specialist curriculum: Participant guide and instructor manual. San Francisco, CA: California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation.
• Tau Lee, P., Baker, R. (2002). Hotel workers take action: The power of popular education applied to health and safety. In Teaching for change: Popular education in the labor movement. Los Angeles, CA and Silver Spring, MD: UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and George Meany Center, National Labor College.
• Teran, S., Baker, R., Sum, J. (2002). Improving health and safety conditions for California's immigrant workers: Report and recommendations of the California Working Immigrant Safety and Health Coalition. Berkeley, CA: Labor Occupational Health Program, University of California.
Teaching
• Community-based labor education courses
• Lecturer in various COEH courses
Public and University Service
• Director of several major projects, including: California Worker Occupational Safety and Health Training and Education Program; Working Immigrant Safety and Health (WISH) Coalition; National Young Worker Health and Safety Resource Center.
• NIOSH NORA II Sector Council, Retail and Wholesale Industries
• Center to Protect Workers Rights, AFl-CIO Building Trades Division, Technical Advisory Board
• Women's Committee Representative, University and College Labor Education Association, Professional Council
• Technical Advisory Board, Center to Protect Workers Rights (AFL-CIO Building Trades)