Health hazard educational products for workers in agriculture

Details

• Personal Author:
  Dames B ; Jacklitsch, Brenda L. ; MacMahon, Kathleen
• Description:
  Workers in agriculture are exposed to many outdoor health hazards that depend on their type of work, geographic region, season, and duration of time they are outside. The Education and Information Division (EID) of NIOSH is developing educational materials for employers and workers about these health hazards in collaboration with scientists internal and external to NIOSH. The goal of these educational products is to provide materials for agricultural workers on hazards they may be exposed to while on the job. These products describe each physical, biological, or chemical hazard and provide steps for prevention and basic first aid recommendations. In addition, these products provide portable, accessible, and easy-touse information about individual worker hazards. Current and future NIOSH electronic and print products for workers in agriculture include Workplace Solutions, web topic pages, and NIOSH Fast Facts cards. Product topics currently in development include: tick-borne diseases, mosquito-borne diseases, poisonous plants, venomous snakes, venomous spiders, stinging insects, heat stress, cold stress, and sun exposure (ultraviolet radiation). NIOSH/EID is interested in partnering with other researchers to develop additional educational products about health hazards to workers in agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Education Environmental Exposure Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Workplace
• Keywords:
  Biological-effects Environmental-exposure Hazards Physiological-effects Preventive-medicine Risk-factors Work-environment Workers
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043485
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2010 Jul; 15(3):309
• Email:
  gwe6@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2010
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:caeb25c3a18953199fe8b71570a41bc680966b635bff9877cdc016566e8a64f1c466f44276a38f6c626862eeee810f80cb1402ffebd3dcffcc95f2b1d1a43b1d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195373/cdc_195373_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 31.09 KB ]