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Article: DIR Partners with Ag Industry to Launch 2009 Heat Illness Prevention Training.
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- March 18, 2009
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FRESNO, Calif. -- The Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and its partners in the agriculture community are conducting a series of critical heat illness prevention seminars to train and prepare growers and farm labor contractors (FLCs) for the upcoming summer months today in Fresno at CPDES Hall at 8 a.m.
"Many heat illness injuries are preventable," said Doug Hoffner, Acting Secretary of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency. "We applaud the members of the agricultural industry in taking a very thorough and assertive approach to implement this safety program and expand it to growers. This has been Governor Schwarzenegger's vision but it requires the ...