During this seminar, Miranda Dally, MS of the Center for Health, Work & Environment will present on evidence suggesting a link between working in hot environments and increased risk of occupational illnesses and injuries. She will discuss the needs for increased surveillance and the importance of workplace interventions.
Cecilia Sorensen, MD of the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and Irving Medical Center will present current evidence linking climate-related exposures to workplace injury and policy goals to address these risks to worker health. She will also present on educational needs and opportunities for the occupational medicine community.
Attendees will learn more about the connection between climate change and human health, especially how it is applied to injuries among workers, as well as opportunities for further research, education, policy development, and prevention.
This webinar is cohosted by the Center for Health, Work & Environment and the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
Speakers:
Miranda Dally, MS
Cecilia Sorensen, MD
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In recent years someone has died every two weeks in an accident on an Irish farm. Many more suffer life changing injuries leaving them and their family to cope with often permanent disability. The vast majority of fatal and serious accidents are preventable and avoidable, most at little or no cost. Planning the job, only doing what you know is safe and stopping to think of the risks for a moment may be the difference between life and death.
Stop Taking Risks. Farm Safely.
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