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A Basic Overview of Farmworker Occupational Safety and Health Protections for Healthcare Providers

Agricultural work is one of the most dangerous jobs in the U.S. The hazards, in conjunction with the poverty, vulnerability, and lack of knowledge about workplace rights have exacerbated the safety and health of migrant farmworkers.  Despite the uniquely dangerous work and vulnerable workforce, few occupational health and safety laws protect farmworkers, and some specifically exclude them.

Farmworkers could benefit from clinicians playing a greater role in the diagnosis, reporting and ultimately, prevention of such injuries.  Often, just having basic knowledge about relevant laws and policies aimed at protecting workers rights and health and safety can go a long way in preventing job-related illness and injuries.

The following presentation outlines a few of the federal laws and policies related to sanitation in agricultural fields and pesticides

Further information can be found in the accompanying summaries of each law.

--> A Guide to EPA’s Worker Protection Standard

--> A Guide to OSHA's Field Sanitation Standard

--> A Guide to Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act ( FIFRA)

--> A Guide to Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA)

In addition, the accompanying chart shows where to find more information for each state about pesticide poisoning reporting requirements, legal resources for farmworkers and enforcement agencies for pesticide and field sanitation laws.

Topics in Occupational Health:

• What Clinicians Can Do to Improve Pesticide Protections for Farmworkers (presentation)

• Learn the Facts about Avian or Bird Flu (guide)

• Assisting Migrant Health Centers to Address the Threat of an Avian Flu Pandemic (presentation; webcast)

Access to Services:

• Obtaining Unemployment Compensation in the 50 States, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands (resource)
• Disaster Relief Available to Farmworkers and the Role Migrant Health Centers Can Play in Securing Them (PPS; webcast; MCN Streamline Jul-Aug 2008, page 4)

 

• Factsheet on Medicaid and Farmworkers

 

• A Guide to Medicaid

 

• Webinar: The H-2A Program-A Basic Overview for Healthcare Providers

Limited English Proficient (LEP) Patients

• Meeting the Needs of Patients with Limited English Prificiency; Guidelines for Federally Funded Healthcare Providers

 

• Language Access and Health Disparities Webcast

 

Effective Contracts for Specialty Care

• Establishing Relationships for Specialty Care (MCN Streamline, forthcoming)

• Contracts and Cooperative Arrangements for Specialty Care (guide)

Risk Management Series for Migrant Health Centers

• Referrals to Specialty Care (guide)

• Off site Services

• Transportation (guide)

• Caring for Undocumented Patients (guide)

• Providing Behavioral Health Services To Mobile Populations (guide)

• Protect Privacy and Provide Quality Care: HIPAA and Migrant Patients 

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