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OUR MISSION
When you are pregnant every day is “bring your child to work day"
Did you work in the electronics industry?
Did you work around chemicals or solvents?
Were you pregnant during this time?
A safe work environment is key to a child’s healthy development. Breathing toxic vapors can harm your fetus– even if you smell nothing and have no symptoms. Exposure to developmental neurotoxins at work when pregnant can cause life-long developmental disability for your child. For decades the so-called “clean” electronics industry has used chemicals and metals known to be harmful to a developing brain – but didn’t warn or protect the moms.
The Mission of Safe Jobs Healthy Families is two-fold (a) help affected families secure compensation for the special needs they face and (b) hold the electronics industry accountable for the costs the public has borne to help meet the needs of children with developmental disability and their families: special education services, personalized medical care, in-home support service assistance and more.
If you answered yes to any of these questions above consider taking our survey
Click on the links below to access the survey, which is available in English, Spanish, Tagalog & Vietnamese. Responses are kept confidential.
If you are interested in learning more but do not wish to take the survey please contact us directly.
OUR WORK
The Safe Jobs Healthy Families team is working to learn to what extent the electronics industry in Santa Clara County has knowingly put its pregnant employees at serious health risks. We hope to bring some accountability to this industry who recruited agriculture farm workers and cannery workers into what they advertised as a "clean industry". This industry has in the past and still continues to expose its pregnant employees to neurotoxins. This exposure, in utero, has lasting impacts that can cause the children to be born with developmental disabilities.
Currently, the team hopes to reach out to the women who have worked in the electronic industry, were pregnant at the time, and gave birth to a child with a developmental disability.