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Agricultural Safety links |
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 Agricultural Health
and Safety Center (University
of California at Davis)
Agricultural
Operations (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
Agricultural
Safety and Health Program (University of Minnesota)
Agriculture
Safety and Health (National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health)
Farmworker Eye Network: Eye Care and Eye
Injury Prevention
Fields
of Poison: California Farmworkers and Pesticides (Pesticide
Action Network North America, United Farm Workers, California
Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, and Californians for Pesticide
Reform, 1999)
Fingers
to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers
(Human Rights Watch, 2000)
Logging
Operations (OSHA Preamble to Final Rule, 1994)
Migrant
Clinicians Network
Migrant
and Seasonal Farmworkers and Pesticides: Community-Based Approaches
to Measuring Risks and Reducing Exposure (Environmental
Health Perspectives, National Institute of Environmental Health
Sciences)
National
Ag Safety Database (National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health)
National
Center for Farmworker Health
New Directions in the Surveillance
of Hired Farm Worker Health and Occupational Safety (National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, March 2000)
North
American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (National
Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety)
Occupational
Safety and Health of Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers (Farmworker
Justice Fund)
OSHA
Occupational Safety and Health Standards for Agriculture
(29 CFR 1928)
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety &
Health Center (University of Washington Department of
Environmental Health)
 Personal
Protection from Pesticides (Penn State University, College
of Agricultural Sciences)
Sawmills
(Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2002)
Simple
Solutions: Ergonomics for Farmworkers (A 53-page handbook
of techniques for preventing farmworkers' most common injuries,
including backaches and pain in the shoulders, arms, and hands.
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2001)
Soluciones
Simples: Ergonomia Para Trabajadores Agricolas (National
Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2002)
 Títulos
en Español (E.E.U.U. National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health, National Agricultural Safety and Health Database)
Worker
Protection Standard for Agricultural Workers and Pesticide Handlers
and Recent Amendments (U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, 2006) |
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Agricultural Safety news |
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Farm Death Sparks Manslaughter Charge — Yolo
County prosecutors have filed what is believed to be the California's
first involuntary manslaughter case against a grower in the
death of a farm worker who was killed on the job. The case was
filed against a Woodland-area grower who is facing four years
in prison and $650,000 in fines if he is convicted on all three
counts in the landmark case. Deputy District Attorney Kyle Hedum
said the filing is "quite rare, but it's going to be more
and more common" -- due to a statute that elevates to a
potential felony any serious Labor Code violation that results
in a worker's death. Another four farm worker deaths in the
Central Valley and Northern California are under investigation,
according to Hedum, a staff lawyer with the California District
Attorney's Association who is working as a "circuit rider"
for the agency, helping 34 counties investigate agricultural
as well as industrial fatalities. "These guys have been
getting killed left and right up here for the last 20 years,"
Hedum said. "The more I'm out here, the more I'm going
to hear about these things."  (Sacramento Bee, December 18, 2001)
Harvest
claims young lives; Midwestern farms proving unusually dangerous.
Nine-year-old Ethan W. Hedgecorth's arm is severed in a grain
elevator while helping a Washington County farmer load a corncrib
near West Bend. Although farm-related deaths of children have
plateaued nationally in recent years, injuries appear to have
risen, said Nancy Esser, agriculture safety specialist at the
National Farm Medicine Center in Marshfield. And this year is
shaping up as unusually dangerous for children in Wisconsin
and the Midwest. - Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, November 5, 2000
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