Compliance with NAGCAT work practices recommendations for youth cleaning service alleys in stall barns

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• Personal Author:
  Ashida S ; Asti L ; Canan BD ; Crawford JM ; Heaney C ; Jepsen SD ; Renick K ; Stallones L ; Wilkins JR III ; Xiang H
• Description:
  Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in the U.S. among persons 1 to 44 years of age. Over one million children and adolescents in the U.S. live, work, and/or play on farms, where injury risk is relatively high compared to other settings. In an attempt to reduce the number of childhood agricultural injuries occurring on farms, the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) was developed to assist parents or other caregivers in assigning developmentally appropriate chores to youth exposed to agricultural hazards. The results presented here are from a longitudinal study in which we obtained (self-reported) daily chore, injury, and safety behavior data from children and adolescents. We focused on one NAGCAT chore, cleaning a service alley in a stall barn, in order to estimate the extent of compliance with specific work practice recommendations contained in the NAGCAT. Our results indicated that among the four NAGCAT-recommended safety practices for cleaning service alleys in stall barns (wearing nonskid shoes, leather gloves, a respirator, and eye protection), wearing non-skid shoes was the only safety practice reported with any degree of regularity. Overall, boys were more likely to wear non-skid shoes compared to girls. In addition, older youth were generally more likely to report higher work practice compliance compared to younger youth. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Behavior Education Family Farmers Mortality Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Protective Devices Safety Safety Management Surveys And Questionnaires

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Agricultural Health Hazards Children Families Farm Safety Health-surveys Injuries Job-analysis Mortality-data Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys Occupational Health Personal-protective-equipment Personal Protective Equipment Respirators Rural Health Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-programs Traumatic-injuries Work-capability Work-practices Youth

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Colorado ; Maryland ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  127-146
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038963
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2011 Apr; 17(2):127-146
• Contact Point Address:
  J. R. Wilkins, III, Division of Epidemiology, 320 West Tenth Avenue, The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Columbus, OH 43210
• Email:
  wilkins.2@osu.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20070901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20110831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7e55f0750936bec70e0df6c76f1a67dbdbd2504c1d3d097b37a8f1471366c85632e6b794dfaadf1485663a31c3622c5ac182eef9aef3d95aec83dad77c36f8fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192475/cdc_192475_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.72 MB ]