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Agriculture
fromLos Angeles Times
2 weeks ago

To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions

California is enhancing coordination among agencies to enforce protections for underage farmworkers facing pesticides, heat, and other workplace hazards.
fromTruthout
3 weeks ago

Child Farmworkers Face Dangerous Exposure to Pesticides in California Fields

Hundreds of thousands of times each year in California, farmers and their contractors spray pesticides on fields and orchards in the state's agricultural heartlands. Farmworkers young and old can be exposed to dangerous concentrations of toxic chemicals if they are not properly trained, left uninformed about when they can safely enter sprayed fields or exposed to pesticide applications - because of factors such as wind drift or operator error.
Public health
Agriculture
fromwww.mercurynews.com
4 months ago

Florez: The heat-safety law isn't enough. Farmworkers are still dying every summer.

California's heat safety regulations for farmworkers are not effectively enforced, leading to continued fatalities during harvest periods.
California
fromKqed
4 months ago

Heat-Related Deaths For Farmworkers Persist And Employers Often Avoid Consequences | KQED

Farmworkers continue to die from heat-related illnesses in California despite existing laws meant to protect them.
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