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  • Preventing Lead Poisoning at Indoor Firing Ranges: An Alert for Workers and Employers

    Lead hazards at firing ranges: Shooting firearms using ammunition with leadcontaining primers or unjacketed lead bullets generates lead dust and fumes. Shooters and anyone else spending time at the firing line are exposed to these dusts and fumes.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/16/2017 — 4 Views

  • Occupational Lead Exposure: An Alert for Workers - Spanish

    Your workplace can expose you to lead. Lead can harm your health and your family's health. You can protect yourself and your family. Many resources are available to help you deal with lead exposure in the workplace and the health problems caused by lead poisoning. Your employer, your doctor, the Department of Labor and Industries, the SHARP (Safety and Health Assessment and Research for Prevention) Program, and the Department of Health can help — at no cost to you.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/16/2017 — 4 Views

  • Occupational Lead Exposure: An Alert for Workers

    Your workplace can expose you to lead. Lead can harm your health and your family's health. You can protect yourself and your family. Many resources are available to help you deal with lead exposure in the workplace and the health problems caused by lead poisoning. Your employer, your doctor, the Department of Labor & Industries, the SHARP (Safety & Health Assessment & Research for Prevention) Program, and the Department of Health can help — at no cost to you.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/16/2017 — 4 Views

  • Occupational Lead Exposure: An Alert for Employers

    Lead enters the body when airborne lead fumes or fine lead dust is inhaled. This can happen if ventilation systems are ineffective or if respirators aren't used properly.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/16/2017 — 4 Views

  • Occupational Lead Exposure: An Alert for Health Care Providers

    Although the toxic effects of lead have been known for centuries, many workers in the U.S. are overexposed and poisoned in their workplaces. This resource is designed to help you work with the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) to prevent lead poisoning among Washington's working men and women and their children.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/16/2017 — 4 Views

  • Is Your Asthma Work Related?

    Information on how asthma may be work-related.
    New York — Brochure — 5/15/2017 — 6 Views

  • Valley fever - Information for Workers - Spanish

    Have you had a cough, fever, or painful breathing for more than two weeks? Tell your boss and see a doctor about Valley fever.People get Valley fever from breathing fungal spores that come out of the soil. Today we know that you can get Valley fever while working in southcentral Washington soil. In the past, Valley fever was only known in the southwestern states like Arizona and California.
    Washington — Brochure — 5/12/2017 — 4 Views

  • Prevent Lead Exposure in Indoor Shooting and Firing Ranges

    This is a two-page factsheet that provides information on how to prevent lead exposure for employees, their customers and their families.
    Louisiana — Brochure — 5/1/2017 — 7 Views

  • Valley fever (Worker)

    Do you work outside? Have you had a cough, fever, or painful breathing for more than two weeks? Tell your boss and see a doctor about Valley fever. People get Valley fever from breathing fungal spores that come out of the soil. Todaywe know that you can get Valley fever while working in southcentral Washington soil. In the past, Valley fever was only known in the southwestern states like Arizona and California.
    Washington — Brochure — 4/21/2017 — 3 Views

  • Valley fever now in Washington State: Information for Clinicians

    Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) is a disease caused by infection with the Coccidioides fungus. The Coccidioides fungus has been found in soil in south-central Washington and locally acquired cases of coccidioidomycosis have been reported to the Washington State Department of Health.
    Washington — Brochure — 4/21/2017 — 3 Views
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