title: Worker-trainers as evaluators: a case study of a union-based health and safety education program.
abstract: The United Automobile Workers uses worker-trainers to deliver health and safety education training to its members. The union has experimented with worker-trainers participating in program evaluation. Worker-trainers participated in the design and conduct of a telephone survey of training impact, and of an on-site survey of trainee perceptions of a large-scale program. Worker evaluators were able to analyze data and give a highly successful presentation of results to trainees at the large-scale program. The incorporation of workers as evaluators is a key step toward the goal of worker empowerment. The involvement of program participants in their program's evaluation can enhance the quality and usefulness of work-site health and safety programs in general.
authors.affiliation: University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA. jdal@umich.edu
authors.forename: Judith A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Daltuva
authors.forename: Melina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vazquez
authors.forename: Thomas G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Robins
authors.forename: Jennifer A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Fernandez
mesh_terms: D007318:Inservice Training / Q000379:methods*; D007750:Labor Unions; D016272:Occupational Health; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010379:Peer Group; D015397:Program Evaluation / Q000379:methods*