We Teach Your Workers English

With the help of Sed de Saber-Construction Edition, your Spanish-speaking workers are empowered to learn English in just four months.

Sed de Saber-Construction Edition improves the English proficiency of your Spanish-speaking workers, and helps enhance safety and communication at home building job sites.

Sponsored by Lowe’s, this new ESL program was custom-created by the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) Home Builders Institute (HBI) to address job site challenges presented by the communication barrier.

Sed de Saber uses a seven-book, fully interactive curriculum to teach Spanish-speaking workers a functional level of English-language conversation and comprehension skills. The self-paced, learn-at-home program teaches each worker 500 vocabulary words and 340 phrases covering basic life skills such as following driving directions, as well as detailed job site scenarios, tools, equipment and scheduling.

The system retails for $395 for NAHB members and $495 for non-members, with additional skills assessment packages available for purchase at $75 each.

Plus, if you order your Sed de Saber learning system through LowesForPros.com, you will receive an additional $40 off each system ordered. Use code LFP2007 when you order to receive your discount.

Hispanic workers in the United States, mostly those born in Mexico, die at a 2O percent higher rate than other U.S. workers, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The BLS, the Center For Disease Control, and certain state agencies analyzed worker death data from 1992 to 2006. Findings for the period indicate that 11,303 Hispanic workers died from work-related injuries.

The death rate for Mexican-born workers was consistently higher than the rate for all U.S. workers, and the proportion of deaths among foreign-born Hispanic workers increased over time, the CDC Morbidity and Mortality report said.

Recent occupational safety reports say Hispanic construction workers have died when they have slipped off wet roofs and when the trenches they have been digging have collapsed and buried them, according to the New York Times. These reports also detail numerous incidents in which migrant farm workers died when crowded vans crashed while their foremen were driving them to the fields.

From 2003 to 2006, the most common industries employing Hispanics who died from work-related injuries were:

• Construction: 34 percent
• Administrative and waste services: 11 percent
• Agriculture/forestry/fishing/hunting: 10 percent
• Transportation/warehousing: 10 percent

Read more Hispanic worker deaths at the New York Times