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Tag Archives: OSHA
Exceeding Expectations and Saving Lives
As we come into the homestretch of the Heat Stress Prevention Training Marathon, we applaud those who participated and cheer them to the finish line. We won’t know the final results until Monday morning, as we have some folks on … Continue reading
Climate Change and Farmworker Health
The Earth’s climate has become warmer over the past century, a trend that the vast majority of climate scientists attribute to human activity. Warming is expected to continue – a recent study projected the average global temperature will rise between 2.5 and … Continue reading
Heat Stress and Rest
By Guillermo Gonzalez, AFOP SAFE AmeriCorps Member Water, Rest, Shade: these are three things that camels do not require, since they can walk for days in the desert, where there is not only tremendous heat, but almost no access to … Continue reading
Heat Stress Prevention with Water
As we near the summer season, with its unforgiving high temperatures that have taken so many farmworkers’ lives, it’s critical we rally behind the United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Water. Rest. Shade. Campaign. Through this … Continue reading
National Heat Stress Awareness Week
The National Safety Council’s 2009 edition of Injury Facts ranked agriculture as our nation’s most dangerous industry with 28.6 deaths per 100,000 adult workers. Agricultural workers have a heat-related death rate 20 times greater than the general American workforce, according … Continue reading
Women in the Work Place
Yesterday marked the inauguration of National Labor Rights Week, a celebration which first began three years ago. The theme for this year is “Women in the Work Place.” I, along with our Children in the Fields Campaign Director Norma Flores … Continue reading
Training in Action
Yesterday, AFOP’s Washington, D.C. staff had the opportunity to travel to Delaware’s Eastern Shore to see one of our SAFE AmeriCorps trainers in action. The farmworkers got really into it when Dina, our excellent SAFE AmeriCorps member, started enthusiastically handing … Continue reading
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Tagged AmeriCorps, EPA, Farmworker, Heat Stress, OSHA, pesticides, Project LEAF, Proyecto Sol, Valentina Stackl, Worker Protection Standard
A Special Visit to HELP, NM
By Jessica Werder, Health & Safety Senior Program Manager It is hot in New Mexico. I know from experience: last week, I had the opportunity to observe a Proyecto Sol, heat stress prevention training at the HELP, New Mexico offices … Continue reading
Staying Safe in the Sun
By Jessica Werder, Health & Safety Senior Program Manager, and Ayrianne Parks, Communications Director As many of us neared the end of our workweek last Friday, our thoughts turned to how we would stay cool throughout … Continue reading
Training Farmworkers On Heat Stress Prevention
June 21st marked the first official day of summer, but that is old news for most of us. Temperatures around the nation’s capital have already reached well over 90 degrees—and for more than just a few days. While it is … Continue reading
Posted in Health & Safety Programs
Tagged Heat Stress, Maria Isavel Jimenez, OSHA, Proyecto Sol, Secretary Solis, Valentina Stackl
