Migrant and Seasonal Hired Adolescent Farmworkers: A Plan to Improve Working Conditions

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lee B ; Vela Acosta M
• Description:
  Agriculture is the second most common employer of youth and is associated with numerous occupational hazards, but few preventive efforts to protect adolescent farmworkers have been implemented or evaluated. The largest group of adolescent farmworkers is youth who live away from their natural families and migrate, mostly from Mexico, to work in U.S. agriculture; many are undocumented immigrants with limited access to education or health care. A national advisory committee gathered information through interviews, focus groups, and teleconferences and made recommendations for preventing or reducing agricultural work hazards that affect the health and safety of adolescent farmworkers, 12-17 years old. The committee focused on characteristics of adolescent development, best work practices, and occupational health and safety, and developed 12 recommendations around 3 goals. The goals were to identify profiles of adolescent farmworkers in production agriculture across the United States; to identify occupational risks specific to adolescent farmworkers; and to plan, implement, and evaluate interventions to eliminate or minimize occupational health and safety risks of adolescent farmworkers. The committee also identified needs of adolescent farmworkers in the areas of child care, health, education and career development, housing, field sanitation, recreation, and transportation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Education Farmers Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Children Hazards Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Sanitation Workers

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• Publisher:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-23
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032002
• Citation:
  Vela Acosta M, Lee B, eds., Marshfield WI: Marshfield Clinic, 2001 Nov; :1-23
• Editor(s):
  Vela Acosta M; Lee B
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Medical Research & Education Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  Migrant and seasonal hired adolescent farmworkers: a plan to improve working conditions
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:de35f2e184eeb80458d053aed2be9795a5bdff6391f1f7c63af92c13832b9e97e42468edd3a9d864277002ce503299fb56d89f4c513711804ff105ad48c3dd63
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186096/cdc_186096_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.78 MB ]