Nurture: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety: Summer 2016

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety ; Marshfield Clinic ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  "The National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety strives to enhance the health and safety of all children exposed to hazards associated with agricultural work and rural environments." This issue includes the following articles. 1) Scientific advisors suggest strategies, opportunities - The National Children's Center welcomed its Scientific Advisors to Marshfield, Wisconsin, April 20-21, 2016 to take a closer look at the seven distinct projects in the current center grant. 2) $20,000 ag safety grants available - Proposals are being accepted for mini-grants up to $20,000 to support small-scale projects and pilot studies that address prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury. 3) Safety grant awardees for FY 2016 - Congratulations to: Jennifer Nelson - Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), "Children's Farm Safety Education and Outreach to Organic and Sustainable Farmers;" and Bryan Weichelt - National Farm Medicine Center/National Children's Center, "Enhancing and Evaluating the National Database of Ag Injury and Fatality News Clippings." 4) Next Generation Ag Work Guidelines - The North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT), released in 1999, are being updated and repackaged for mobile friendliness through the Next Generation Ag Work Guidelines project. 5) CASN continues to grow - Membership in the Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN) has increased to more than 50 organizations, and now includes insurance professionals, agricultural educators and others. 6) AgInjuryNews.org database at 2,500 entries - The National Children's Center has built and continues to improve a web-based tool for storing and retrieving agricultural injury and fatality news clipping data. 7) NIOSH communications expert visits NCCRAHS - Positive ripples continue from the September 2015 visit to the National Children's Center by NIOSH communications expert Max Lum. Dr. Lum's morning webinar on digital strategies, noon seminar on health communications and afternoon hands-on Wikipedia training session continue to pay dividends. 8) Agritourism web-based safety tool makes debut - The redesigned "Integrating Safety into Agritourism" website www.safeagritourism.org with mobile-friendly checklists and virtual walkthroughs, was officially unveiled in February at the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association (WATA) Summit in Marshfield. 9) NCCRAHS, Nationwide Insurance partner for record-breaking Twitter conversation - The National Children's Center AKME Team partnered with Nationwide Insurance (the nation's largest insurer of farms) to produce a record-breaking #AgChat on February 23. The moderated Twitter conversation was dedicated to grain bin safety. It reached 722,627 Twitter accounts and tallied more than 22.5 million Impressions. 10) 2016 Childhood Agriculture Injuries Fact Sheet released - Among household youth on farms, injury rates increased in the 10-19 age group during the latest reporting period, despite a continued overall decline in the rate of childhood agricultural injuries in the U.S. These trend and others are highlighted in the 2016 Childhood Agricultural Injuries Fact Sheet compiled by the National Children's Center and available at www.marshfieldresearch.org/nccrahs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Adolescent Agriculture Communications Media Computers Education Family Farmers Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Software Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Accident-rates Accident-statistics Adolescents Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-processes Agricultural-products Agricultural-workers Children Computer-models Families Injuries Injury-prevention Motor-vehicles Photography Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-practices Safety-programs Safety-research Tractors Training Work-environment Work-operations Work-organization Work-performance Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  Nurture
• Publisher:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Newsletter
• 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:
  1-4
• Volume:
  19
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20048350
• Citation:
  Nurture: Q Newsl Natl Child Center Rural Agric Health Saf 2016 Summer; 19(1):1-4
• Editor(s):
  Heiberger S
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2016
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20080930
• End Date:
  20250929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203118/cdc_203118_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 1.12 MB ]