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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 )
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center, University of Washington
Presentations by Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH):
1. Age Considerations: Impacts on Pesticide Exposure and Health Outcomes
2. How to Identify the Products Your Patients are Exposed to
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- Age Considerations ( 449 Kb )
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- How to Identify the Products Your Patients are Exposed to ( 784 Kb )
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- Reporting, Surveillance, Legal Aspects of Pesticide Related Illness ( 431 Kb )
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- How to Protect Women and Children-English ( 2 Mb )
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- How to Protect Women and Children-Spanish ( 2 Mb )
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- Chronic Health Effects of Pesticide Exposure ( 598 Kb )
The Clinicians Role in Addressing Occupational Health Risks of Adolescent Migrant Farmworkers
This is an MCN online course. The primary objective is to ensure clinicians serving migrant and underserved communities are aware of general childhood agricultural safety and health concerns. This will be accomplished in a way that increases the clinicians’ ability to provide effective healthcare to their patients by assessing and understanding agricultural health risks.