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WEBINAR | ¡Es su derecho saber! Ayudando a los Promotores de Salud a promover la seguridad química en el trabajo
21 de Junio de 2017 @ 1 pm (ET)
Oradora: Alma Galván, MHC
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EST
WEBINAR | It’s your right to know! Helping Community Health Workers Promote Chemical Safety on the Job
May 24, 2017 @ 1 pm (ET)
Speaker: Juliana Simmons, MSPH, CHES
Timezone:
EST
Webinar | Clinicians Sowing Seeds in Kansas: Providing Care for Vulnerable Populations Working in Agriculture
Clinician Guides for Farmworker Health and Safety Regulations
MCN and Farmworker Justice offer these guides to assist clinicians in understanding farmworker health and safety regulations. OSHA’s Field Sanitation Standard; EPA's Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA); EPA's Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA); EPA’s Worker Protection Standard (WPS).
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- OSHA's Field Sanitation Standard Clinician's Guide ( 765 Kb )
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- FIFRA FQPA Clinician's Guide ( 295 Kb )
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- WPS Clinician's Guide ( 864 Kb )
Fact Sheet- Key Revisions to the Worker Protection Standard
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Worker Protection Standard (WPS) provides basic workplace protections to farmworkers and pesticide handlers to minimize the adverse effects of pesticide exposure. EPA announced major revisions to the WPS in September 2015. MCN and FJ's fact sheet provides a summary of the revised regulation.
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- Fact Sheet-Revisions to WPS ( 1 Mb )
California Safe Cosmetics Program
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/cosmetics/Pages/default.aspx
An online, searchable database that allows salon workers and others to learn about and report toxic chemicals found in nail salon products and other cosmetics.
Needlestick Prevention on the Farm
Agromedicine Workshop: 10 hour Training Presented by University of Texas Health Northeast
The University of Texas Health Northeast will present the10-hour training program in Agromedicine! Hundreds of rural physicians, veterinarians and healthcare professionals have attended this training program over the last 40 years. Originally developed by Iowa's Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (I-CASH), it has been enhanced to reflect the distinct essence of Texas and taught by regional faculty, as well as the program's pioneer, Dr. Kelley Donham.
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CST
Environmental and Occupational Health Screening Questions for Primary Care
Three concise and effective environmental/occupational health screening questions for the primary care provider. English and Spanish. MCN, 2014.
An EHR-friendly version of these screening questions was developed through MCN's Workers & Health Program. This can be used as a reference for integration into the health center's Electronic Health Record.
Assessment of Maternal Occupational Pesticide Exposures during Pregnancy and Three Children with Birth Defects: North Carolina, 2004
Introduction
In August of 2005, the North Carolina Division of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch (OEEB) was notified that three women who had worked on farms in North Carolina owned by Ag-Mart had delivered infants with birth defects. All three births took place in Florida where the women also worked on Ag-Mart farms and lived near each other. This report summarizes the OEEB’s investigation and assessment of the pesticide exposures likely experienced by these women while in North Carolina.
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- Ag-Mart Release Report ( 203 Kb )
