Commensality, Ritual, and Reciprocity: Cattle Feedyard Managers’ Perspectives on Safety Culture

Details

• Personal Author:
  Klataske RT ; Ramos AK
• Description:
  This article focuses on how cattle feedyard managers think about the idea of "safety culture" and why it might matter for the well-being of feedyard operations and their workforce. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research in the Great Plains of the United States, it describes strategies used by managers to cultivate a sense of community, belonging, and kinship among employees, which some managers believed to be key features of feedyard cultures that foster safety. The findings suggest that efforts to improve the safety and health of cattle feedyard workers may benefit from considering how safety initiatives are shaped by the social and cultural dimensions of feedyards, the structural context of these animal feeding operations, and the everyday lives, experiences, and interactions of people who work on them. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Cattle Livestock Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Safety Animal Husbandry Workers Applied Anthropology Author Keywords: Agriculture Cattle Industry Feedyards Livestock Industry Organizational Culture Safety Culture
• ISSN:
  1408-032X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Nebraska ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  86-100
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069377
• Citation:
  Anthropol Notebooks 2023 Dec; 29(2):86-100
• Contact Point Address:
  Ryan T. Klataske, Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health, College of Public Health, 984355 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States
• Email:
  rklataske@gmail.com
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Nebraska Medical Center - Omaha
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  Anthropological Notebooks
• End Date:
  20270831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e120b37f9530a7a1968af8ddeff3cb73cb3b290eb9b6bfad021b1974b68ac49b9da2737b8c550416a0cb8164acc520b520f3064fa130ec90a4dc50cc1c267350
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207866/cdc_207866_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 246.76 KB ]