H5N1 Bird Flu Information for Workers 2024
The H5N1 Bird Flu guide offers practical guidance for at-risk workers, explaining risks, symptoms, transmission, safety steps, employer duties, protective equipment, and actions after exposure.
Workers Resource Guide 2024
The NYCOSH 2024 Workers’ Resource Guide helps workers understand rights, access support, and connect with legal, medical, and community services across NYC, Long Island, Westchester.
Impact Report 2023
NYCOSH’s 2022–2023 Impact Report highlights intersectional advocacy, policy wins, and worker training advancing health, safety, climate justice, and racial equity across New York statewide efforts.
Smoke and Air Quality 2023
This health advisory explains wildfire smoke risks, air quality warnings, symptoms, and protections, offering workers guidance on safety measures, respiratory protection, and employer obligations during hazardous air conditions.
Monkeypox 2022
This worker guide explains monkeypox symptoms, transmission, vaccines, and workplace protections, outlining employer responsibilities, PPE use, and actions workers should take if exposed or ill.
System Failure: Essential Workers and COVID-19 in New York State 2021
System Failure reveals how workers’ compensation breakdowns during COVID-19 denied essential workers benefits, exposing systemic barriers, low claim rates, and urgent needs for reform statewide.
Time Off Task: Pressure, Pain, and Productivity at Amazon 2019
NYCOSH’s report exposes Amazon’s time off task policies, documenting intense pressure, widespread pain, injuries, and productivity demands that prioritize speed over worker health and safety.
Zika General Information 2016
Creating a Healthier Workplace is a guide helping nail salon workers understand job-related health risks, workers’ rights, and practical steps to create safer, healthier salons.
Dirty and Dangerous: Worker Safety and Health in New York City’s Scofflaw Commercial Waste Injury 2016
This report exposes dangerous conditions in New York City’s commercial waste industry, detailing preventable injuries, fatalities, wage theft, and regulatory failures harming essential sanitation workers.
Understanding Legionnaires’ Disease: A Fact Sheet For Workers And Unions 2015
This worker fact sheet explains Legionnaires’ disease transmission, symptoms, high-risk occupations, and prevention strategies, highlighting water system hazards and controls to reduce workplace exposure.