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MCN WEBINAR: National Conversation: Strengthening the Worker Protection Standard
DATE RECORDED: Wednesday, March 5, 2014
MCN WEBINAR: Pesticide Poisonings. Are you prepared? (Feb 2014)
DATE RECORDED: Wednesday, February 19, 2014
PRESENTED BY: Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, Dean Emanuel Endowed Chair/Director National Farm Medicine Center
MCN WEBINAR: Workers and Health - How Frontline Providers Make a Difference in the Protection of Migrant Farmworkers and their Families
Part 4 of 7 webinars in the CLINICIAN ORIENTATION TO MIGRATION HEALTH series.
DATE RECORDED: May 15, 2013
PRESENTERS: Amy K. Leibman, MPA, MA, Director of Environmental and Occupational Health, Migrant Clinicians Network
Dr. Mike Rowland, MD, MPH, Vice President, Medical Affairs and Medical Director, Occupational Health, Franklin Memorial Hospital
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- EOHPrimaryCareProviders webinar ( 5 Mb )
MCN WEBINAR: Bringing Healthcare Justice to the Front Line: Integrating Environmental Health into Nursing Practice and Education
An MCN/CDN webcast facilitated by Candace Kugel, FNP, CNM
MCN WEBINAR: Pesticides and Farmworkers
Matthew Keifer, MD, MPH, a board certified occupational medicine specialist and internationally renowned researcher regarding pesticides and worker health, overviews the importance of recognizing and managing pesticide exposure. To obtain free CME* credit, please complete this evaluation at the end of the webinar http://www.migrantclinician.org/national_webinar_eval.
Webinar | Pesticide Poisonings - Are you prepared? (April 2017)
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
