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Managing Hazards and Risks for Landscape Professionals

Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:00p.m.-4:00p.m.

Early Bird Registration is $25 (by April 4) and $35 after this date

Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA

There are many known - and some emerging - occupational and environmental hazards that you and others in the green industries absolutely need to know how to address to assure your health and safety and that of your employees. This seminar will focus on the positive side: how to keep yourself and your workers safe in all kinds of situations.

Guest Presenters: Kurt Tramposch, Jean Manoli and Dori Smith

Topics covered:

• The priority risks you need to be aware of 

• OSHA compliance and training or licenses you might need to have, as an individual work or a business owner.   

• Pesticide and herbicide application: who needs to have a license? 

• How to handle – or avoid – toxic or dangerous materials or tools 

• Lyme disease and other tick-carried diseases: ways to reduce the risk to you and your clients; accurate diagnosis and protocols for treatment 

• Resources available from State and Federal agencies, UMass Extension, and  non-profit agencies

Kurt Tramposch, MPH, manager of Weir Meadow Nursery in Wayland, MA. As a community environmental health planner, he has been passionately involved in leading, educating, and lobbying about agricultural and landscape safety issues for two decades. He is a former director of Mass. Nursery and Landscape Association.

Jean Manoli, a training specialist for Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety. She is an advocate for small businesses, helping them understand and comply with Federal OSHA rules covering safety and health issues.

Dori Smith, M.Ed., landscape designer, writer, and educator; owner of Gardens for Life in Acton, MA. Since being infected with Lyme disease in 2007, she has been active in educating people about prevention and treatment of tick-borne diseases.

Audience:

Nursery and greenhouse workers

Designers/architects

Landscape contractors and builders

Gardeners

Have you attended these programs? We would appreciate your feedback.