Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: agriculture, forestry and fishing 2015 annual report

Details

• Personal Author:
  Sorensen J
• Description:
  The Northeast Center (NEC) is a NIOSH funded extramural Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF) Research Center, which is affiliated with the Bassett Healthcare Network in Cooperstown, New York. The mission of the NEC is to enhance the health of AFF workers by identifying priority health and safety issues and working with AFF communities and stakeholders to identify prevention solutions. The Center provides these services to an eleven state region that extends from Maine to West Virginia. Over the course of the past twelve months, Center researchers have worked diligently to complete research projects and intervention evaluations, as well as to publish the results of these efforts in peer-reviewed journals. The Center's evaluation team has continued to monitor and track the progress of individual projects and was also central in efforts to conduct a cost-analysis of the impact of the NY OSHA Local Emphasis Program, which is described in the Outreach and Evaluation sections of the Center Annual Report. Project investigators have also dedicated considerable energy to working with the NEC Promotions Coordinator to disseminate research results and information on AFF health and safety best practices to the AFF communities throughout the NEC region. The Center's major projects are evenly divided between Research, Intervention/Prevention and Education/Translation. These projects and Principal Investigators represent considerable expertise in engineering, occupational medicine, public health, social science, evaluation and education. Several NEC mini-grants were funded in 2014/2015 to address a number of local AFF priorities. One of these mini-grants, has led to the submission of an expanded NIH study application that was submitted in July 2015. NEC research, outreach and prevention activities continue to leverage local, long-established partnerships with agencies and health research institutions throughout the Northeast, such as Harvard University, Pennsylvania State University, the University of Massachusetts: Lowell, the University of Vermont, Farm Bureau, State Departments of Agriculture, Labor and Health, Fishing Partnership Support Services, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard and the MIT Sea Grant Program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Automobiles Education Farmers Forestry Hunting Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Centers Farm Workers Fishing Industry Forestry Workers Injury Prevention Logging Workers Motor Vehicles Tractors Training
• Publisher:
  Bassett Healthcare Network
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Annual Report
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-17
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049359
• Citation:
  Cooperstown, NY: Bassett Healthcare Network, 2015 Sep; :1-17
• Contact Point Address:
  Julie Sorensen, PhD, Center Director, Bassett Healthcare Network, Cooperstown, NY 13326
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, New York
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety: agriculture, forestry and fishing 2015 annual report
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/203825/cdc_203825_DS1.pdf
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