267528 On the Ground Efforts to Improve Compliance with the Heat Illness Prevention Standard in California's Fields and Concerns with the Standard's Limitations

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 : 1:24 PM - 1:42 PM

Anne Katten, MPH , CRLA Foundation, Sacramento, CA
Norma Ventura, BA , CRLA Inc., Fresno, CA
     
California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) Inc. is a non-profit legal services program with offices throughout rural California. Their mission is to strive for economic justice and human rights on behalf of California's rural poor. CRLA Community workers routinely monitor compliance with the heat illness prevention standard in agriculture by traveling along local roadways, observing working conditions. In this presentation a CRLA community worker will describe violations observed, strategies used to improve compliance and examples of heat illness risk factors which are not addressed by the regulation.

A representative from the farmworker advocacy organization CRLA Foundation participated in the stakeholder regulation development process will explain other limitations of the regulation and potential solutions and be available to assist with questions.

Learning Areas:
Occupational health and safety

Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this presentation, participants will be able to: -Describe common violations of the heat standard observed in California fields -Identify strategies for improving compliance with the standard. -Identify heat illness risk factors which aren’t addressed by the standard

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked for California Rural Legal Assistance in Fresno as a Community Worker since August 2010 and have two summers of experience monitoring field conditions and I have been trained in assessing and documenting heat illness prevention regulation violations. I am the daughter of indigenous farmworkers and spent many summer and winter vacations pruning, tying and harvesting grapes and harvesting strawberries.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 5200.0: Protecting Workers from Outdoor Heat: the California Experience