As an HR or Safety professional, are your outdoor workers prepared for summer hazards? Learn about physical and biological hazards to outdoor workers, including ticks and mosquitoes, venomous snakes and spiders, stinging insects, poisonous plants, heat stress, and sun exposure. Recommendations for each topic will include prevention and basic first aid. Find out the latest NIOSH information on these topics.

SHRM Credit has been approved for this session. Erigo Employer Solutions, our continuing education partner, will email the code to attendees within 1 week of the session.

Dr. Brenda Jacklitsch will present on this topic. - Dr. Jacklitsch is a research health scientist and serves as Coordinator for the NIOSH Small Business Assistance Program within the Division of Science Integration at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is interested in designing and evaluating educational products targeting employers and workers that may have limited resources and access to professional OSH assistance. She was the lead project officer for the NIOSH Criteria for a Recommended Standard: Occupational Exposure to Heat and Hot Environments and was involved in the redesign and update of the OSHA-NIOSH Heat Safety Tool app. In addition, she has developed a variety of educational materials related to outdoor worker hazards. Dr. Jacklitsch has a PhD in Health Education from the University of Cincinnati, and an MS in Epidemiology and a BS in Biomedical Science from Texas A&M University.

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