Implementing the California Ergonomics Standard in Agricultural Operations

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• Personal Author:
  Duraj V ; Fathallah F ; Faucett J ; Janowitz I ; Meyers JM ; Miles J ; Shafii M ; Suriano A ; Sutter S ; Tejeda D
• Description:
  In 1997 California promulgated the Nation's first workplace ergonomics standard. It requires affected employers to implement a program to minimize repetitive motion injuries including: worksite evaluation, control of exposures causing injury and employee training. In 1998, the UC Agricultural Ergonomics Research Center launched a NIOSH-funded effort (PHS-CCU912911) to study the impact of the ergonomics program in agricultural operations. Results to date suggest that employers may have difficulty independently implementing the standard in ways that will significantly reduce targeted exposures. Barriers include: tendency to focus on marginal interventions for reasons of cost and technical difficulty; lack of off-the-shelf, proven intervention technologies for common risk factors; lack of experience with worker-management shared decision-making; and structural separation between safety and operations management. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Ergonomics Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-processes Agricultural-workers Exposure-levels Injuries Risk-factors
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Farm Safety (NIFS)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant ; Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-21
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022177
• Citation:
  National Institute for Farm Safety 2001 Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paper No. 01-03. Columbus, OH; National Institute for Farm Safety, Inc, 2001 Jun; :1-21
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Intervention Effectiveness Research
• Performing Organization:
  University of California, Davis, CA
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19980501
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Farm Safety 2001 Annual Meeting, June 24-27, 2001, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• End Date:
  20011130
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:20d26dcd0fe17717f231c6591dcad2ca09335d37da91dc7d39ef60ccf23bed6aad870b663df055952a285372477fc92d28f094a1a8b12dfc829a503c39e44eee
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/199054/cdc_199054_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 460.08 KB ]