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WEBINAR | Community Health Workers Can Make a Difference in Helping People Stay Safe and Healthy on the Job
DATE RECORDED: August 17, 2016 at 1 pm ET
PRESENTED BY: Amy Liebman, MPA, MA and Wilson Augustave, member of MCN’s Board of Directors and Senior HIV Case Manager at Finger Lakes Community Health
WEBINAR | It’s your right to know! Helping Community Health Workers Promote Chemical Safety on the Job
DATE RECORDED: June 22, 2016
PRESENTED BY: Kerry Brennan
WEBINAR | Cardiovascular Conditions and Social Determinants of Health
DATE RECORDED: June 15, 2016
PRESENTED BY: Dra. Maura Patricia García Castillo, MD, MPH
WEBINAR | Before the Dog Days of Summer, Learn how Community Health Workers can Help Prevent Heat Stress
DATE RECORDED: June 8, 2016
PRESENTED BY: Juliana Simmons, MSPH, CHES
WEBINAR | Before the dog days of summer, learn how community health workers can help prevent heat stress (English)
DATE RECORDED: May 25, 2016
PRESENTED BY: Antonio Tovar, PhD
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 )
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 )
WEBINAR Protecting Farmworkers: What clinicians need to know about the newly revised Worker Protection Standard
DATE RECORDED: April 13, 2016
PRESENTED BY: Amy K. Liebman, MPA, MA | Virginia Ruiz, JD | Richard Pont | Gayle Thomas, MD
WEBINAR: Workers & Health: How Frontline Providers Make a Difference in the Protection of Migrant Workers and Their Families (BRCHS)
DATE RECORDED: Friday, July 11
PRESENTED BY: Ed Zuroweste, MD. Chief Medical Officer, Migrant Clinicians Network
MCN WEBINAR: Pesticide Poisonings. Are you prepared? (June 2014)
DATE RECORDED: Wednesday, June 17, 2014
PRESENTED BY: Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair/Director National Farm Medicine Center
