Training/Education

Hands on the Land Project: Resource Clearinghouse for Forestry Services Workers

With this 5-year award to Oregon State Forestry Extension, PNASH joins as a partner in Hands on the Land, a collaborative program to enhance the equity of the forest workforce in the Pacific Northwest. We focus on labor-intensive forest workers including forestry services contract crews, incarcerated workers, and volunteer workforces.

Hands on the Land re-envisions our forest workforce with:

A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of Heat-Related Illness Policy Implementation to Inform Practical Solutions for Farmworkers

The objective of this project is to conduct a timely evaluation of a new updated State occupational heat policy for agriculture (Ag) to inform practical implementation solutions. In the Pacific Northwest, there is a substantial burden of heat-related illness (HRI) among outdoor Ag workers, who are largely foreign-born and Spanish-speaking. While State and Federal policies have the potential to reduce inequities in occupational heat health effects for Ag workers, heat rules may be variably implemented in different local contexts, leading to variable impacts.