Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Farm Community Safety Education: A Conceptual Analysis

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• Personal Author:
  Cole H
• Description:
  For many years, farm health and safety education efforts have focused on the presentation of safety rules and guidelines. This method of instruction tends to ignore the contingencies that influence the actual behavior of farmers. Consequently, while most farmers understand the safety instruction messages they receive, they frequently continue to engage in risky behaviors. They do so even when they are aware of the injury consequences that can result from engaging in risky behaviors during farm work. Consequently, educational programs for the delivery of farm health and safety knowledge have been judged to be of questionable effectiveness. Yet, current political, social, and economic realities suggest that safety and health education will remain a favored methodology for the foreseeable future. These observations suggest that farm safety education efforts may need to be reconceptualized. This article examines the learning of safe and unsafe work practices from three historical learning theory perspectives: behaviorism, constructivism, and socioculturalism. The conceptual analysis is illustrated through case study examples. The analysis may provide insights into why transmission of knowledge by itself is not effective for replacing risky behaviors with safe work practices. It may also assist the design of farm health and safety education programs that impart knowledge, as well as change attitudes and behavior that support safe work practices. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Behavior Education Farmers Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Farming Behavior-patterns Instruction Learning Risk-factors Safety-measures Safety-programs Training
• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  145-159
• Volume:
  8
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030093
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2002 May; 8(2):145-159
• Contact Point Address:
  Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, College of Education, and Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health, University of Kentucky, 1141 Red Mile Road, Suite 102, Lexington, KY 40505-9842
• Email:
  hcole@uky.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• Performing Organization:
  Department of Preventive Mecicine, School of Public Health, College of Medicine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19960930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20000929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190920/cdc_190920_DS1.pdf
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