Sun Safe Workplaces: A Campaign on Sun Protection Policies for Outdoor Workers Phase I

A sample of local government organizations are recruited to a group-randomized pretest-posttest controlled trial evaluating the effect of a campaign to promote workplace policy and education on sun protection for outdoor workers. Primary outcome is adoption of formal policies and secondary outcomes are implementation of policy and sun protection practices by outdoor workers.

Inclusion Criteria: * A local government organization with employees who worked outdoors in at least one of the following service areas: public works, public safety, and parks and recreation, * Having a full time executive, * Having a population of at least 3000 residents, * Being employed at a participating local government organization as a manager * Being employed at a participating local government organization in a job requiring outdoor work at least part of the time. Exclusion Criteria: * Organization had participated in the authors' previous occupational sun protection project.