Responding to pesticide-related emergency events

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• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Worker Illness and Injury Prevention Program
• Description:
  Emergency responders (ER) are twice as likely to develop an occupationally related acute pesticide illness as compared to all other non-agricultural workers. From 2000 - 2005, nine cases of Oregon emergency responders becoming ill after being exposed to pesticides while on the job were reported to the Pesticide Poisoning Surveillance Program at the Oregon Public Health Division, Department of Human Services. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Emergency Responders Firefighters Fires Insecticides Law Enforcement Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety
• Keywords:
  Chemical-industry-workers Emergency-responders Fire-fighters Fire-hazards Injury-prevention Law-enforcement-workers Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Risk-analysis Safety-education Work-operations
• Publisher:
  Oregon Department of Human Services
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039581
• Citation:
  Putting Data to Work. Portland, OR: Oregon Department of Human Services, 2007 Sep; :1-6
• Contact Point Address:
  Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division, Office of Environmental Public Health Toxicology, Assessment & Tracking Services Section (TATS), 800 NE Oregon Street #640 Portland, OR 97232
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Putting Data to Work
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:749eea43a59f55187ec77c9cc8d210634a8862f9e78de7017d94431793c1028dbaf67a5b3d60d3c587a5420f3eaeffef272ef468b1bfcdfff8e61d2ede002328
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192772/cdc_192772_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.28 MB ]