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  • OHW: Cleaning Products Can Cause Asthma

    Occupational Health Watch is a periodic publication that highlights key occupational health surveillance findings and related prevention activities of the Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health. November 2011 edition on preventing asthma that is caused or made worse by cleaning products; provides links to OHB materials that discuss safer products and cleaning methods, and including guidance on how to select safer cleaning products.
    California — Newsletter — 11/2/2011 — 0 Views

  • Acute Illness and Injury from Swimming Pool Disinfectants-- United States, 2002--2008

    MMWR article report on study to assess the frequency of illness and injury related to pool chemicals highlights most common factors in illness cases and factors most associated with work-related pesticide injury or illness. Study used data collected from 6 states participating in the Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risk (SENSOR)--Pesticides surveillance program.
    California — Journal Article — 10/7/2011 — 0 Views

  • Where Employers Can Get Help

    Resource list for California employers; includes health and safety, regulatory, health care, workers' compensation and other referrals.
    California — Brochure — 10/1/2011 — 0 Views

  • Acute Illnesses Associated With Insecticides Used to Control Bed Bugs --- Seven States, 2003--2010

    MMWR report on study to assess the frequency of illness from insecticides used to control bed bugs using data from Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risks (SENSOR)-Pesticides program and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH). Cases were identified in California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Texas, and Washington.
    California — Journal Article — 9/23/2011 — 0 Views

  • OHW: Preventing Wood Chipper Deaths

    Occupational Health Watch is a periodic publication that highlights key occupational health surveillance findings and related prevention activities of the Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health. September 2011 edition about using digital stories to prevent worker fatalities from using woodchippers.
    California — Newsletter — 9/23/2011 — 0 Views

  • Orchard caretaker dies when he is pulled in to a wood chipper

    Fatality investigation report by CA FACE Program with identified hazards and recommendations to prevent similar incidents
    California — Case Report — 9/20/2011 — 0 Views

  • Preventing Wood Chipper Fatalities

    Digital story based on CA FACE Program fatality investigations; highlights hazardous conditions and preventive measures.
    California — Multi-Media — 9/6/2011 — 0 Views

  • Data Sources Used to Calculate Occupational Health Indicators

    Sources used to obtain data for 20 Occupational Health Indicators and the employment demographic profiles for the states and nation. Document was adapted from 2005 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) report.
    California — Technical Report — 8/1/2011 — 0 Views

  • Chlorine Gas Exposure at a Metal Recycling Facility

    Article in MMWR about 23 people, including employees, needing medical care after chlorine gas was released from a ruptured tank being recycled at a California metal recycling facility.
    California — Journal Article — 7/22/2011 — 0 Views

  • Chromium-6 in the Workplace

    Factsheet describes how exposure occurs, in what industries, and the potential health effects of exposure. The factsheet also provides advice on minimizing exposure at the workplace, including use of safer alternatives (when available).
    California — Brochure — 7/21/2011 — 0 Views
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