Observation Study of Students Who Completed a High School Agricultural Safety Education Program

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• Personal Author:
  Reed DB ; Westneat SC
• Description:
  The Agricultural Disability Awareness and Risk Education Project (AgDARE) is a research-based curriculum of agricultural safety instruction based on Prochaska and DiClemente?s Transtheroetical Model of Change. The program uses eight reality-based psychomotor and narrative modules to teach safe farm work behaviors. In addition to in-class pencil and paper assessments on safety attitudes and behavior intention, farm visits were made to assess the longer term influence of AgDARE. Visits were made between 11 and 20 months (mean = 14.24 months) after completion of the classroom instruction to 29 students who worked on farms and completed at least one-half of the AgDARE instruction. All but one of the visited students exhibited safe work behaviors addressed by the AgDARE instruction. In addition, 76% of the visited students had made positive changes in their farm work behavior since participating in AgDARE. Changes extended beyond the instruction that students received in class to include other aspects of farm work and other family members. The use of farm visits to evaluate students? safety behaviors was tempered by the challenge of contacting students and obstacles associated with observing work in an environment where little is routine or regular. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animals Behavior Education Family Farmers Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-processes Agricultural-products Agricultural-workers Animal-studies Author Keywords: Adolescent Evaluation Families Injuries Injury-prevention Injury Prevention Instruction Protective-clothing Protective-equipment Protective-materials Protective-measures Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  275-283
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035022
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2003 Nov; 9(4):275-283
• Contact Point Address:
  D. B. Reed, College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Rose St., HSLC 553, Lexington, KY 40536-0232
• Email:
  dbreed01@pop.uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky, College of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, Lexington, Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20010929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c741ccb01408ae31e394e659f36cf195c60723913da25b92e88c058b20ff9c9a2d20b14c1fad8e821251e4f25d0c5a2358e64c750f232362a7d7ac8e973d5978
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187017/cdc_187017_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 123.36 KB ]