I found a better way to set up the logger in child processes, thanks to StackOverflow! I now call worker-configurer at the beginning of each pool process, but the configurer checks for existing logger handlers:

`def worker_configurer(queue):
    root = logging.getLogger()
    if not root.handlers:
        h = QueueHandler(queue)
        root.addHandler(h)
        root.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
    return
`
No more need for os checking and artificial time delays!