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Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
PNASH, the Western Center, the Northwest Center for Occupational Health and Safety, and NIOSH/CDC sponsored the 2004 Agricultural Health and Safety Conference. More than 110 conference participants from a broad range of disciplines heard almost 30 speakers address how occupational health and safety can be integrated into sustainable agriculture practices and how research and outreach can contribute to that effort. It was the first major event in the nation to focus on these goals.
1) Karla Chambers: Making the Workplace Safe, Healthy, and Sustainable
2) Richard Fenske: Sustaining the Worker
3) David Granatstein: Sustainable Agriculture: Global, National, and Regional Trends
4) Jim Cochran: Current Workplace Practices and Challenges
5) Ann Thrupp: Current Workplace Practices and Challenges
6) Lon Inaba: Current Workplace Practices and Challenges
7) Paul Jepson: Organic vs. Conventional Farming and Workplace Safety and Health
8) Rupali Das: Organic vs. Conventional Farming and Workplace Safety and Health
9) Dain Craver: Organic vs. Conventional Farming and Workplace Safety and Health
10) Aimee Schreck: International Standards and Certification and Sustainable Practices
11) Fadi Fathallah: Stoop Posture and its Effects on Workers
12) Chris Feise: Developing Worker Health Standards in Sustainable Agriculture
13) Chuck Benbrook: Developing Worker Health Standards in Sustainable Agriculture
14) Scott Exo: Developing Worker Health Standards in Sustainable Agriculture
15) Mike Gempler: Developing Worker Health Standards in Sustainable Agriculture
16) Erik Nicholson: Developing Worker Health Standards in Sustainable Agriculture
17) Judy BlueHorse Skelton: Sustainability through Native American Eyes
18) Frank Mitloehner: Health, Safety, and Mega Dairy/Cattle Farms
19) Bruno Chomel: Zoonotic Diseases and Worker Health
20) Brad Warren: Aquaculture: Worker, Public, and Environmental Health Issues
21) Martin Goebel: Sustainability and Rural Development
22) Helen Murphy: Establishing a Research and Outreach Agenda
23) Matthew Keifer: Northwest Orchard Injuries
24) Marc Schenker: Health among Farmer and Farm Worker Populations
25) Steven McCurdy: Survey of Adolescent Injuries on California Farms
26) Kit Galvin: Pesticide Take-home Pathway Interventions
27) Barbara Lee: Safety Training for Employers and Supervisors of Adolescent Workers
28) Linda McCauley: Hygiene Activities to Reduce Farm Worker Home Dust Pesticide Levels
Speaker Biographies
Note: The presentations and bios can be downloaded from:
http://depts.washington.edu/pnash/conf04/index.html
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
School of Public Health and Community Medicine
University of Washington
PO Box 357234, Seattle, WA 98195-7234
t: (800) 330-0827,
f: (206) 616-2687
pnash@u.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/pnash/
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NASD Review: 06/2006
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