http://ehswire.com/2009/09/my-immunity-no-more/ Views and news about environmental, occupational health & safety Mon, 07 May 2012 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://ehswire.com/2009/09/my-immunity-no-more/comment-page-1/#comment-1448 Poison Ivy: Outdoor Worker Public Enemy « EHSWire Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:31:40 +0000 http://ehswire.com/?p=678#comment-1448 [...] workers, and landscapers, often find themselves! And don’t think that you’re immune either. My coworker, Paula Kaufmann, CIH, wrote about her overconfidence that she had not been sensitized to... Maybe she should have paid attention to Emilcott’s poison ivy awareness and other outdoor hazards [...] [...] workers, and landscapers, often find themselves! And don’t think that you’re immune either. My coworker, Paula Kaufmann, CIH, wrote about her overconfidence that she had not been sensitized to… Maybe she should have paid attention to Emilcott’s poison ivy awareness and other outdoor hazards [...]

]]> http://ehswire.com/2009/09/my-immunity-no-more/comment-page-1/#comment-902 Digital Product Reviews Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:05:08 +0000 http://ehswire.com/?p=678#comment-902 When I was a kid, poison ivy was never an issue for me. But, partway through my teenage years I was helping my dad fix our street sign (private street, small town, over the years the snow plows had been slowly pushing it farther and farther over) and there was poison ivy in the bushes around the sign and I ended up getting a pretty decent itchy rash from it. Luckily, it wasn't too bad. When I was a kid, poison ivy was never an issue for me. But, partway through my teenage years I was helping my dad fix our street sign (private street, small town, over the years the snow plows had been slowly pushing it farther and farther over) and there was poison ivy in the bushes around the sign and I ended up getting a pretty decent itchy rash from it. Luckily, it wasn’t too bad.

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