Empowering Farm Women to Reduce Hazards to Family Health and Safety on the Farm

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• Personal Author:
  Jones MS ; Luchok KJ ; McKnight RH
• Description:
  We describe a unique example of a community participation program to prevent agricultural injury and illness on family farms in two south-central Kentucky counties. Funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, this three-year program builds on existing social networks among farm women and on the traditional role of women as the primary health officers of their families. Twelve influential farm women were recruited as the core group of the Kentucky Partnership for Farm Family Health and Safety in February 1993. Together with technical assistance from two universities, they built a coalition of local farm families, health professionals, businesses, and volunteer agencies. Based on the findings of county-wide surveys of farm women, the Partnership members planned and implemented farm safety training programs, including presentations for over 5,000 school students and at over 100 community events. Another innovative educational tool developed by the women was "photonovels" featuring local people in agricultural safety scenarios. Photonovels are booklets that use photographs with a story featuring local people in familiar local settings to deliver a message. On their own farms, these women have taken measures to reduce hazards. By focusing on the empowerment of farm women as change agents to improve the health and safety of farm families and communities, this program can serve as a model for opening new pathways to reduce risks on small family farms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animals Education Family Farmers Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-products Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Agricultural Health And Safety Change Agent Coalitions Community Development Educational-resource-centers Families Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Partnerships Risk-analysis Risk-factors Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Safety-programs

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• 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:
  91-98
• Volume:
  5
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035119
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 1998 Mar; 5(2):91-98
• Contact Point Address:
  M. S. Jones, Department of Nursing, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 42101, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:52637ad10b682a43844075b6afd8389aa9e9502150ae7d13dbb2c204ae120deb2f7783b6f220d9c8363ec20fbf556513e91ef9cc5de35037b542bff1a630f5b2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187077/cdc_187077_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 244.37 KB ]