Improving Health and Safety in the Agricultural Workplace

Details

• Personal Author:
  Schenker MB
• Description:
  Agriculture is an occupation whose hazards have historically been ignored in the United States. Other'occupations thought to be inherently hazardous, such as mining, have seen dramatic reductions in injuries and illnesses at the same time as more productive technologies have been instituted. Unlike mining, agriculture has not suffered the sort of mass disasters that catalyze action and resources to address a problem nevertheless, there is now increased recognition of the hazardous nature of agriculture, and the situation is changing. Approaches to injury and illness prevention in agriculture must use modern techniques of disease prevention and health promotion. They also must take into account the changing nature of the agricultural workplace and of health care delivery, particularly in the rural setting. Agriculture is a very diverse industry, and solutions must be appropriate to the local political, geographic, and cultural factors and to the farm practices of the region. Farming is the oldest occupation and was one of the first in which it was recognized that work could be hazardous as well as rewarding; it deserves our best efforts and the necessary resources to make it as safe, and its workers as healthy, as possible. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Dermatitis Hazardous Substances Health Personnel Health Promotion Mining Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Public Health Safety Skin Skin Diseases Staff Development Workplace

  More +
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-processes Agricultural-products Agricultural-workers Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Health-programs Health-protection Mining-industry Nurses Nursing Occupational-accidents Occupational-dermatitis Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-health-nursing Occupational-health-programs Occupational-health-services Occupational-safety-programs Occupational-sociology Occupations Public-health Sociological-factors Work-environment Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

  More +
• ISBN:
  9780520226081
• Publisher:
  University of California Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034648
• Citation:
  Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy. Schneider Jamner M, Stokols D, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000 Dec; :586-614
• Editor(s):
  Schneider Jamner M; Stokols D
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Davis
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20000930
• Source Full Name:
  Promoting human wellness: new frontiers for research, practice, and policy
• End Date:
  20020929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3c193c0a4a39e7cc626f6f341a89f99239f0fb1dc02a89adde7e1b443e062c76824ef38b772f4e7adfa254eca6b014907f7ac801efd5eb5c7796b418541ae05e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186781/cdc_186781_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.52 MB ]