This guide is designed to assist trained Agricultural Health Professionals to recommend appropriate respirators based on the clients’ agricultural exposure. (This guide is not intended for the professional who has not received training in respirator selection.)
Improving the way opioids are prescribed will ensure patients have access to safer, more effective chronic pain treatment while reducing opioid misuse, abuse, and overdose.
Guidelines produced by the CDC regarding the usage of opioids to treat acute pain.
Guidelines produced by the CDC on the usage of non-opioid treatments for chronic pain.
Guidelines produced by the CDC on the usage of opioids to treat chronic pain.
Guidance on manure pit operations from ASABE specify the need to monitor these spaces prior to entry. This alert provides general guidance on why and how to monitor.
A guide for well water requirements.
This document describes the federal Worker Protection Standards for agricultural establishments.
Syngenta has collaborated with the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association to create Dress for Success!, a resource for farm employers and employees regarding basic PPE principles and practices to protect the health and safety of everyone involved in handling a pesticide.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine’s guidelines for treatment of acute, subacute, chronic, and postoperative pain with opioids.
July 22, 2014 presentation slides from Dr. Colleen Reid on how wildfire smoke impacts populations.
ACOEM has updated the treatment guidelines concerning opioids. This report highlights the safety-sensitive work recommendation that has been developed.
This paper examines exposure to occupational injury producing events among women within the context of role and Haddon’s Injury Model.
This SAMHSA fact sheet provides tips for coping with stress during an infectious disease outbreak. It describes common signs of stress and how to recognize when to get help.
The purpose of this manual is to provide healthcare professionals with current consensus recommendations for treating patients with pesticide-related illnesses or injuries.
This is a chart of zoonotic diseases and how they are transmitted.
A NIOSH guide to protecting yourself from Heat Stress.
A guide (created by NIOSH) to protecting your hearing on the farm.
The information in this guide has been written specifically for the livestock industry to prevent falls when transporting livestock.
CDC resource guide in Spanish on non-powered hand tools.
English Title: A Guide to Selecting Non-Powered Hand Tools
CDC resource guide on non-powered hand tools.
Spanish Title: Una Guía para la Selección de Herramientas de Mano No-Energizadas
This OSHA publication provides a general overview of personal protective equipment requirements and selection.
The Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) is an 11-item scale designed to be administered by a clinician.