Evaluation of a 3 Year Intervention to Increase Adoption of Safer Nursery Crop Production Practices

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• Personal Author:
  Chapman LJ ; Karsh BT ; Newenhouse AC
• Description:
  BACKGROUND: We conducted a 3 year intervention to increase awareness and adoption of eight more profitable nursery crop production practices that reduced certain traumatic and musculoskeletal injury hazards. METHODS: We disseminated information to nursery managers across seven states using information channels they were known to rely on (e.g. trade publications, public events, university Extension, other managers). We evaluated rolling, independent, probability samples (n=1200) with mail questionnaires before the intervention and after each of 3 intervention years. We also evaluated samples (n=250) from a comparison group of New Zealand nursery managers. RESULTS: The intervention was associated with increased awareness of four of the eight practices among US managers after year 3 compared to their baseline: zippers (20 vs. 32%, p
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Environmental Monitoring Ergonomics Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Analytical-methods Author Keywords: Agriculture Evaluation Studies Exposure-assessment Exposure-methods Horticulture Injuries Injury-prevention Landscape-services-workers Management-personnel Mathematical-models Musculoskeletal-system Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-safety-programs Occupational Health Questionnaires Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-research Sampling-methods Statistical-analysis Task-performance Teaching Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  0003-6870
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  18-26
• Volume:
  41
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20036314
• Citation:
  Appl Ergon 2010 Jan; 41(1):18-26
• Contact Point Address:
  Larry J. Chapman, University of Wisconsin, Biological Systems Engineering Department, 460 Henry Mall, Madison, WI 53706
• Email:
  ljchapma@wisc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Performing Organization:
  University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20030930
• Source Full Name:
  Applied Ergonomics
• End Date:
  20080929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b9ebd5df78e9a82c98212b00f9aff79e5882a2a6c273b96728613e5c6034de49fc2a6211a1b6ba6dc7e498af0754e4e414cbb4ef0c2c72af980b43e1cbbc9abc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187788/cdc_187788_DS1.pdf
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