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OSHA's Campaign to Prevent Heat Illness in Outdoor Workers
HEAT ILLNESS CAN BE DEADLY. Every year, thousands of workers become sick from exposure to heat, and some even die. These illnesses and deaths are preventable.
Preventing Agricultural Pesticide Exposure: Revisions to the EPA’s Worker Protection Standard
In 2015, for the first time in over 20 years, the Environmental Protection Agency updated the Worker Protection Standard (WPS). The WPS provides basic workplace protections for agricultural workers to reduce the risk of pesticide exposre. This issue brief overviews the major revisions that are particularly relevant for clinicians caring for agricultural workers.
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- WPS Issue Brief 2016 ( 3 Mb )
Providing Medical Services to Low-Wage Workers with Job Injuries: Model Tools and Instructions for CHCs in California
This booklet is intended to help Community Health Centers put in place an effective and efficient workers' compensation program.
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- MedicalServicestoWorkers-2012.03.27 ( 6 Mb )
Regulatory Changes in the EPA's Worker Protection Standard
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing changes to the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), the agricultural worker regulation intended to provide basic workplace protection for millions of farmworkers.
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- wps ( 185 Kb )
State Workers' Compensation Requirements for Employers of Farmworkers
Farmworker Justice and MCN compiled state-by-state requirements for employers to provide workers compensation to agricultural workers. The document sites case law where applicable.
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- State-by-state workers' compensation chart ( 121 Kb )
The Year in U.S. Occupational Health & Safety: Fall 2012 – Summer 2013
A report prepared by researchers at The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services features a wealth of information on occupational health and safety and the migrant population, from farmworkers to fast-food chain employees to restaurant cooks and servers.
News release:
http://defendingscience.org/news/labor-day-looking-back-year-us-occupational-health-and-safety
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- H&S Report2013 reduced size ( 3 Mb )
Weak Enforcement Practices Protect Florida Growers - Florida Palm Beach Post (Part 2 of 3 Part Series)
Probe of ill workers cited to expose flaws, Farmworker advocates say the state mishandled a case in which 20 migrants were sickened.
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- florida pesticide 2 ( 20 Kb )
Webinar Presentation Slides: Cultural Proficiency in the Context of Migration Health
This webinar is the second in a series of seven in our Clinician Orientation to Migration Health.
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- cxprofMCN2013 ( 2 Mb )
WEBINAR SLIDES: Caring for the Injured Worker
These are the slides from an MCN/ Farmworker Justice sponsored webinar titled "Caring for the Injured Worker: Effective Partnerships between Clinicians, Health Centers, and Lawyers."
Originally presented on Wednesday June 26, 2013
PRESENTERS: Brent Probinsky, JD, Probinsky and Associates, PA
Dr. Ed Zuroweste, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network
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- CaringforInjuredWorkersWebinar2013 ( 3 Mb )
