| March
19 - AGRICULTURAL WORKER PROTECTION
WORKER PROTECTION PROTECTION - NATIONAL PROGRAM ASSESSMENT |
8:30 |
Welcome - Introductions - The Why and How
of the Assessment |
| 9:00 |
General Findings
|
| ENFORCEMENT
|
| 9:30 |
Enforcement Realities: A Panel Discussion (Jack
Neylan, Jeaneanne Gettle - EPA HQ & Region 4, Dale Dubberly
- Florida Department of Agriculture, Shelley Davis - Farmworker
Justice Fund) |
| 10:45 |
Break |
| 11:00 |
Discussion/Public Exchange |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 |
Enforcement Program Element Review - Daniel Palmer,
EPA
|
| 1:30 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| ASSESSMENT
WORKGROUP REPORTS |
| 2:00 |
General Training Workgroup Report |
| 2:35 |
National Train-the-Trainer Workgroup Report |
| 3:15 |
Break |
| 3:30 |
Hazard Communication Workgroup Report |
| 4:10 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| FUTURE
IMPLEMENTATION |
| 4:25 |
Recommendations for the National Worker Protection
Program |
| 4:45 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 5:00 |
Summary / Wrap Up |
| MARCH
20 – PESTICIDE WORKER SAFETY WORKSHOP |
| 8:30 |
Welcome - Introductions -Workshop Purpose |
| PROCESS
TRANSPARENCY |
| 8:45 |
Introduction to Benefits Assessment and the Risk Management Process |
| 9:00 |
Benefits Assessment Process |
| 9:45 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Probabilistic Worker Risk Assessment, An International Life Sciences
Institute Project - Mary Mitchell, Health Canada |
| 10:45 |
Risk Management Process |
| 11:30 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
|
DEMOGRAPHICS |
| 1:00 |
National Agricultural Workers Survey - Daniel Carroll, U.S. Department
of Labor |
| ENGINEERING
CONTROLS |
| 1:30 |
Closed Transfer Systems - Andy Kosiak, Sotera |
| 1:40 |
Personal Protective Equipment - International Safety Equipment
Association |
| 1:50 |
Engineering Control Technology for Pesticide Application - Andrew
Landers, Cornell University |
| 2:20 |
Robotics in Orchards - Fran Pierce, Center for Precision Agricultural
Systems, Washington State University |
| 2:45 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 3:15 |
Break |
| COMPETENCY
STANDARDS |
| 3:30 |
Professional Aerial Applicators Support System - Doug Smith, National
Association of Aerial Applicators |
| 3:55 |
Binational Core Applicator Exam - Lorin Rubbert, Canadian Aerial
Applicator |
| 4:20 |
Mexico Train-the-Trainer Project - Richard Herrett, Agricultural
Research Institute / Council for Agricultural Science and Technology |
| 4:40 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 5:00 |
Summary / Wrap Up |
| MARCH
21 – PESTICIDE WORKER SAFETY WORKSHOP |
| TRAINING
AND COMMUNICATION |
| 8:30 |
Serving America's Farmworkers Everywhere: SAFE - Jacqueline DeCarlo,
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, WendyLord, Development
Corporation of Maine |
| 8:50 |
San Luis Obispo County Farm Worker Safety Initiative - Sandra Sarrous,
ECOSLO, Sue Edmiston, California Department of Pesticide Regulation |
| 9:15 |
Broadcast Media and Pesticide Safety Programs - Arturo Vasquez,
Hispanic Radio Network |
| 9:35 |
Farmworker Health and Safety Institute - Teresa Niedda, FHSI |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| HEALTH
CARE |
| 10:30 |
Migrant Clinicians’ Network Programs - Amy Liebman, Migrant
Clinicians Network |
| 10:50 |
Health Care Provider Initiative - National Environmental Education
& Training Foundation - Leyla McCurdy, National Environmental
Education & Training Foundation |
| RESEARCH
|
| 11:10 |
Take-Home Pesticide Exposure Among Agricultural Workers and Their
Children: A Community Intervention Project - Gloria Coronado, Fred
Hutchinson, Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA |
| 11:30 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 |
Cholinesterase Monitoring - Dr. Matthew Keifer, University of Washington
|
| 1:30 |
Agricultural Health Study - Dr. Michael Alavanja, National Institutes
of Health |
| 2:00 |
Farm Family Exposure Study - John Acquavella, Monsanto Company |
| 2:30 |
Farmworker Health and Safety Issues - Shiela Zahm, National Institutes
of Health (Invited) |
| 3:00 |
Discussion / Public Exchange |
| 3:30 |
Summary / Wrap Up |
