FS4JK Farm Safety Day Camps: Who Learns the Most

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• Personal Author:
  Claunch DT ; Rayens MK ; Reed DB
• Description:
  Farm Safety 4 Just Kids uses daylong community-based farm safety day camps as a primary method to instruct children about the hazards in farm environments. This article describes children's knowledge about farm safety before and after a day camp experience and assesses differences in knowledge gain by farm residency status and by gender as a result of their attendance at the camps. Data collection focused on three high-risk farm exposures: tractors, powered equipment, and large animals. A 32-item pre- and post-camp survey developed by the research team measured children's knowledge scores in these three focal areas. The sample consisted of 1,233 children, ranging from 8 to 12 years of age. Mixed models were used to test for changes in knowledge over time and for differences by gender and by farm/nonfarm status of the child. The results were encouraging: both farm and nonfarm children increased their knowledge about farm injury risk. Overall, girls demonstrated greater knowledge than boys on both the pre- and post-tests. Based on these findings, farm safety day camps appear to improve the knowledge of children about the injury risks associated with the farm environment. Refinements to the camp structure may foster greater knowledge gain of children attending the camps. While education of children about farm safety is not the sole answer to decreasing injury, it is a key component that should not be discounted. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Demography Farmers Genetics Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Children Children Day Camps Demographic-characteristics Farm Genetic-factors Injury-prevention Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Risk-analysis Safety-education Safety-programs Work-environment Worker-health

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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:
  5-17
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035116
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2009 Jan; 15(1):5-17
• Contact Point Address:
  College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0232
• Email:
  dbreed01@email.uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20070929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5ca9c66ce0b4f2cbf6688093988dda750ebabd5d8a0aa6776bb1fdb3dd90a7debbf8660f54fb8a977a337f8bb2c56e0e56b0f62eca14a92a567dfde5401927a6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187074/cdc_187074_DS1.pdf
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