- Who We Are
- Clinician Employment
- Publications
- Witness to Witness (W2W)
- El Premio Kugel & Zuroweste a la Justicia en la Salud
- Your Voice Matters: Photovoice Project
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) conducts a number of activities to help prevent or reduce the harmful effects of exposure to hazardous substances. The agency provides toxFAQs, easy to understand fact sheets about hazardous substances and their health effects, and has toxicologists available to answer further questions and can tell you where to find occupational and environmental health clinics. ATSDR also offers a series of Case Studies in Environmental Medicine for the primary care provider.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the federal agency responsible for environmental protection.
Link
http://www.epa.gov/
Home Safety Month
Home Safety Month asked the public to take some simple hands-on steps to create a safer home environment from the five leading causes of home injury – falls, poisonings, fires and burns, choking/suffocation and drowning. HSC offered turnkey resources to help families nationwide learn how to be “hands-on” with proper home safety practices.
For information specific to migrant and underserved populations visit the MCN Environmental and Occupational Health page.
North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
It is imperative that employers, employees, and the general public are aware of the importance of preventing illness and injury in the workplace--wherever that workplace may be, such as on the road, in the air, the classroom, the store, the plant, or the office. Each year the families, friends, and co-workers of victims of on-the-job accidents suffer intangible losses and grief, especially when proper safety measures could have prevented worker injury or death.
