MCN and Farmworker Justice offer these guides to assist clinicians in understanding farmworker health and safety regulations. OSHA’s Field Sanitation Standard; EPA's Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA); EPA's Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA); EPA’s Worker Protection Standard (WPS).
- OSHA's Field Sanitation Standard Clinician's Guide.pdf (747.53 KB)
- FIFRA FQPA Clinician Guide.pdf (287.9 KB)
- WPS Clinician's Guide.pdf (843.35 KB)
Three concise and effective environmental/occupational health screening questions for the primary care provider. English and Spanish. MCN, 2014.
An EHR-friendly version of these screening questions was developed through MCN's Workers & Health Program. This can be used as a reference for integration into the health center's Electronic Health Record.
- EOHScreeningQs_2014Nov.pdf (3.99 MB)
- EOHScreeningQs_EHR_2014Nov.pdf (4.49 MB)
These Cholinesterase (ChE) clinical tools provide a concise and simple format to guide clinicians in monitoring the ChE levels for patients working with Class I and Class II organophosphates (OP) or OP and N-methyl-carbamates.
MCN's Pesticide Clinical Guidelines and Pesticide Exposure Assessment Form assist in the recognition and management of acute pesticide exposures in primary care settings.
The pesticide guidelines were adapted from guidelines developed by Dr. Dennis H. Penzell, a former medical director of a Community and Migrant Health Center with experience in large-scale pesticide exposure incidents.
The Acute Pesticide Exposure Form was adapted from the data collection on an acute pesticide exposed patient tool developed by Matthew C. Keifer, MD, MPH, Director of the National Farm Medicine Center, appearing in the EPA's Recognition and Management of Pesticide Exposures, 6th Edition, EPA 2013.
These resources were developed with guidance from MCN's Environmental and Occupational Health Advisory Committee - a panel of healthcare professionals and researchers with expertise in pesticides and migrant health.
- PesticideClinicalGuidelines_2014Nov.pdf (395.73 KB)
- 2022-Pesticide-Exp-Assessment_ENG.pdf (316.56 KB)
- 2016-08-16 - Acute Pesticide Exposures Clinical Guidelines (Spanish).pdf (203.88 KB)
- 2022_Pesticide-Exp-Assessment_SPA.pdf (626.33 KB)