PNASH News - New Articles and Resources

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Good afternoon,

For your information, here are our latest research, developments

and resources for injury and illness prevention in Ag (farming, fishing

and forestry).

Sincerely,

PNASH Faculty, Staff and Students

Pacific Northwest

Agricultural Safety and Health (PNASH) Center

NIOSH/CDC Center for

Agricultural Disease and Injury Research, Education and Prevention

School of Public Health, University of Washington

Resources

and Guides

NIOSH Chemical Hazard Pocket

Guide App now on the IPhone

and IPad

Designed for the iPhone and iPad interface, the NIOSH Pocket Guide to

Chemical Hazards gives safety professionals immediate access to crucial

information on all of 677 chemicals in the database including all the

resources of the NIOSH Pocket Guide and much more. The App

is available through iTunes.

Other

downloadable

document versions of the guide are available through

CDC/NIOSH at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npg/.

Your Guide to

Available Retrofit ROPS for Agricultural Tractors

Locate

retrofit ROPS for older tractors and even gray

market tractors at

http://www.ca.uky.edu/rops.

Used

in combination with a seatbelt, rollover protective structures (ROPS)

have been shown to be 98% effective in preventing death and serious

injury in the event of a tractor overturn. Nevertheless,

more

than

a third of tractors in use today - still do not have these

lifesaving structures.

PNASH

News

Releases

PNASH

Article:

Healthcare Providers' Role in Preventing

Pesticide-Related Illness.

MCN

Streamline,

March/April 2010, Volume 16, Issue 2.

Ag

Connections

Newsletter,

Spring

2010: Protecting At-Risk Farmers and Employees with Effective, Low-Cost

Solutions.

PNASH

Article:

Inter-Agency

Collaboration in WA State to Prevent Pesticide

Exposures.

Newsletter of the NIOSH

Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health Research, Education and

Prevention.

Newsletter:

2010

Northwest Forest Worker Safety Review

is now available online.

This newsletter provides information to promote health and safety in

the northwest forestry industry. This includes news on regulations,

research, developments, and coming events compiled by the PNASH Center.

Featured Article ~ "New

Yarders...Old

Yarders."

Recent

Scientific

Publications

Development

of

a

Computer-Based

Survey Instrument for Organophosphate and

N-Methyl-Carbamate Exposure Assessment among Agricultural Pesticide

Handlers.

Hofmann JN, Checkoway H, Borges O, Servin F, Fenske RA, Keifer MC.

Annuals of Occupational Hygiene 2010: April 22 (E-publication ahead of

print).

Biomarkers

of Sensitivity and Exposure in Washington State Pesticide Handlers.

Hofmann JN, Keifer MC, Checkoway H, De Roos AJ, Farin FM, Fenske RA,

Richter RJ, van Belle G, Furlong CE.

Advances in Exposure Medical Biology 2010:660:19-27 (PUBMED abstract).

View

Online

- PNASH Center Research Review

View

rapid

presentations

on PNASH projects - straight

from our scientists. Now

online:

PNASH Research Review, April 20, 2010, Granger,

WA.

Project

progress reports presented include:

Risk Factors for

Cholinesterase Depression among Pesticide

Handlers

Interventions to

Minimize Worker and Family Pesticide Exposures

Enhancements to

Cholinesterase Monitoring: Oxime Reactivation and

OP-ChE Adducts

Neurobehavioral

Assessment of Pesticide Exposure in Children

Introducing a

Cholinesterase (ChE) Test Kit into Clinical Practice

Pesticide Effects:

Integration into Health Care Provider Curricula

Reality Tales:

Storytelling to Translate Agricultural Health and

Safety Research

Ergonomic Evaluation

and Development of Best Practices for the

Use of Mobile Work Platform Technology in Orchards

Yakima Community-based

Research - El Proyecto Bienestar