National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety Annual Report 2019: September 30, 2018 - September 29, 2019

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• Journal Article:
  National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Annual Report, September 30, 2018 - September 29, 2019
• Corporate Authors:
  National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
• Description:
  Center's Summary: The National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS) was established in 1997 and has a long history of developing, testing, and sustaining projects associated with children who live on, work on, and visit farms and ranches across the U.S. Our Center is unique among the other National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Agricultural Centers, in that we have a national focus versus a regional emphasis. Our major emphasis is on national leadership, knowledge mobilization and partnership development. Relevance: As depicted in the annual Child Ag Injury Fact Sheet, which is prepared and disseminated by our Center, the nonfatal childhood agricultural injuries are trending downward overall and more than half of these injuries occur to non-working children who are present in the worksite with an estimated 33 children suffering nonfatal injuries each day. With respect to childhood agricultural fatalities, the numbers persist with more than 100 children dying each year. Among youth workers 15-17 years, the number of worker fatalities in agriculture remains consistently higher than all non-agricultural industries combined. Primary agents of fatalities are machinery (including tractors and skid steers), motor vehicles (ATVs) and drowning. The Center's range of research, interventions and communications is highly relevant as we build upon scientific evidence regarding the most preventable injuries and the most effective interventions. Leadership: Our Center paves the way for identifying and addressing the most pressing issues regarding children that live, visit and work on farms. Our scientists and staff serve on many national advisory boards and task forces where they provide guidance and exert influence to include children's issues into broader activities. These include the USDA SAY Clearinghouse, Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA), International Society of Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH), Agri-Safe, Ag Health and Safety Alliance, Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin, and others. With a theme of "strengthening public-private partnerships to address childhood agricultural injury prevention," we have grown a network of individuals, organizations, and agricultural enterprises that are having a positive influence on the culture of safety for children. Much of our work is based upon the childhood agricultural safety adaptation of the Socio-Ecological Model as published in Journal of Agromedicine (Vol 22, No. 4) with projects and interventions crossing over multiple spheres of influence. To extend the impact of our efforts we strive to identify policy-relevance in all relevant projects. A key tactic that expanded our impact this year was the planning, hosting, and evaluating a series of three Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention workshops at locations across the U.S. With more than 60 participants primarily representing private-sector entities we are confident that evidence-based interventions will be more widely known and adopted to safeguard children living and working in agricultural settings. Another leadership role we hold is the coordination of the Childhood Agricultural Safety Network - a loose-knit coalition of nearly 80 non-profit organizations, NIOSH Ag Centers, agribusiness, farm organizations, and the media. Through periodic electronic messages and an annual in-person meeting information on child farm fatalities, prevention techniques, and learning opportunities is shared. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Agricultural Workers' Diseases Agriculture Child Child, Preschool Community Health Services Education Family Farmers Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Rural Health Rural Population Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Agriculture; Agricultural workers; Agricultural industry; Agricultural Centers; Agricultural safety; Farm workers; Farmers; Families; Children; Adolescents; Injuries; Injury prevention; Work environment; Work practices; Safety education; Safety measures; Safety monitoring; Safety practices; Safety programs; Safety research; Protective measures; Education; Training; Occupational health programs; Occupational safety programs; Communication systems; Hazard communication; Surveillance; Workshops; Partnership; Information dissemination; Information systems; Community based; Community health
• Source:
  Marshfield, WI: Marshfield Clinic Research Institute 2019 Oct; :1-21
• Publisher:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CDC/NIOSH Cooperative Agreement No. 2U54-OH009568-10-00
• Genre:
  Annual Reports
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  21 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20057984
• Contact Point Address:
  National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, 1000 N. Oak Avenue - ML1, Marshfield, WI 54449
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2020
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/156765/cdc_156765_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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