NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program

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• Alternative Title:
  Thirty years of the NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program
• Personal Author:
  Harrington, Marcy ; Wickman, Amanda ; Williams, Donjanea ; Lincoln, Jennifer M.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  As NIOSH celebrates half a century of work in occupational safety and health, the Institute’s Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing (AgFF) Program reflects on 30 years of research and outreach designed to protect the people who produce our nation’s food and fiber. The AgFF Program began in response to a rise of farmer safety concerns from the Midwest and Northeast.1 To address long-standing high rates of fatalities, injuries, and illness in agriculture, Congress established a national initiative in agricultural safety and health under Public Law (P.L.) 101-517. As a result of this, NIOSH developed a program at the direction of Congress in 1990 to address risks in agriculture with a focus on surveillance, special populations, health effects, control systems, and outreach mechanisms.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational/prevention & Control Agriculture Anniversaries And Special Events CDC--history Fisheries Forestry History, 20th Century History, 21st Century NIOSH--history Occupational Health
• Document Type:
  Interactive Resource
• Name as Subject:
  NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program. ; NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Program.
• Genre:
  Blogs
• Place as Subject:
  Pittsburgh, PA
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066423
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:062c88affd9cccf7cdbe920dd98eac8cbc35bccfc5c425d1a4a4ab78ecd51974241515ebd289e5d6f4c95519b099a368232ca55b0d302062913f758c2f924566
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/112486/cdc_112486_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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