From left: MBA President Douglas K. Sheff receives the national award for workplace safety with WILG's President Chuck Davoli.
Massachusetts Bar Association President Douglas K. Sheff
received a national award for workplace safety this month from the
Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group (WILG), which called
Sheff's creation of a diverse and powerful Workplace Safety Task
Force in Massachusetts a national model to be replicated by other
states. The task force includes attorneys, judges, doctors,
legislators, unions, insurance companies, the Attorney General's
office and other leaders, who speak with one voice on a variety of
safety issues.
WILG, the national nonprofit membership organization dedicated to
representing the interests of millions of workers and their
families, presented Sheff with its Special Recognition Award for
Innovation and Community Service at its annual convention on Oct. 7
in Palm Beach, Florida.
Sheff was honored for his leadership as chair and founder of the
MBA's Workplace Safety Task Force, a multi-industry coalition that
spearheaded education regarding workers' rights in countless blue
collar communities throughout the commonwealth; a public awareness
program to educate leaders in the law, business, medicine and
government; and the passage of legislation designed to protect
working families, such as the "Right to Know" law, which protects
approximately 100,000 temporary workers yearly from unsafe and
unfair conditions by mandating proper training, supervision and
safety equipment.
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