July 7 @ 2 pm (EST) | This webinar will discuss overall trends in increased chemical exposures in the home and workplace and how to minimize exposure.
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Join MCN and partners for a webinar with Bob Harrison, MD, MPH and Justine Lew Weinberg, MSEHS, CIH as we discuss disinfection during COVID-19.
PACT Webinar Series | Session 1
Disinfecting during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What we need to know about the health effects of using chemicals to disinfect and best practices to minimize exposure
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
11:00 AM (PST) / 2:00 PM (EST)
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COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the United States and throughout the world. Prevention of this novel virus includes proper cleaning and disinfection of high-touch surfaces to help mitigate transmission. This has resulted increase in the use chemicals or antimicrobials to eliminate the virus on surfaces. With this increased use, the number of chemical exposures has increased. During January –March 2020, poison centers received several thousand more exposure calls related to cleaners and disinfectants compared to the same time in 2019 and 2018. And as more and more people stayed at home beginning in early March, the daily number of calls to poison centers increased sharply. The acute and chronic health effects of this increased use of disinfectants is important to consider. This webinar will discuss overall trends in increased chemical exposures in the home and workplace, review the health effects and present best practices to minimize exposures.
This webinar is supported by a cooperative agreement between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Michigan State University (MSU) along with Migrant Clinicians Network and the National Pesticide Safety Education Center.
Speakers
Robert Harrison, MD, MPH
Sr. Physician Diplomat at California Department of Public Health / University of California / San Francisco in the Division of Occupational and Environmental
Robert Harrison, MD, MPH, has been with the California Department of Public Health and the University of California, San Francisco, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine since 1984. He established the UCSF Occupational Health Services, diagnosing and treating thousands of work and environmental injuries and illnesses. He has designed and implemented medical monitoring programs for workplace exposures and consulted widely with employers, healthcare professionals, and labor groups on work-related injury and illness prevention. He has led many work and environmental investigations of disease outbreaks and has served as a consultant to OSHA and CDC/NIOSH and as a member of the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. He directs the NIOSH-funded Occupational Health Internship Program and is Associate Director of the UCSF Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program. He has authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.
Justine Lew Weinberg, MSEHS, CIH
Certified Industrial Hygienist at Occupational Health Branch,
California Department of Public
Justine Lew Weinberg, MSEHS, CIH, is a certified industrial hygienist who has worked in the Occupational Health Branch, California Department of Public Health since 2007. She develops technical guidance regarding evaluating and controlling occupational exposures to prevent work-related asthma and pesticide illness. Ms. Weinberg received her BS in Environmental Toxicology from UC Davis, and her MS in Environmental Health Sciences – Industrial Hygiene, from the UCLA School of Public Health. She has worked in health and safety for over 30 years including work in occupational medicine at UCLA, private industry, and industrial hygiene consulting. Ms. Weinberg has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed journal articles including papers on fragrances and work-related asthma, cleaning products and work-related asthma, and using the IH hierarchy of controls to prevent pesticide drift.
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