Development of an Occupational Health Safe Return to Work Prototype Application and Ergonomics Dataset for Agricultural Tasks

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• Personal Author:
  Keifer, Max ; Ray W ; Weichelt B
• Description:
  Serious, restrictive, non-fatal injuries are commonplace in large animal agriculture including in pork and dairy production. Primary care clinicians often have few resources to facilitate workers' return to work and have difficulties communicating work restrictions/limitations to workers and their employers. This project developed SafeReturnToWork.org, a web-based platform to aid physicians and farmers in farmworkers' timely and safe return to work. This prototype characterizes the duties of dairy and pork workers, and facilitates the creation of applicable light duty job assemblies for farmers and farmworkers by physicians and other healthcare providers. Guided by interviews and focus groups with physicians, farmers, and farmworkers, the system was developed for use with workplace injuries that could eventually link to human resource department systems, an electronic health record, or expand to other industries beyond agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animal Husbandry Animals Dairy Products Ergonomics Farmers Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Software Workload

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Agricultural Workers Animal Handlers Animal Husbandry Animal Husbandry Workers Author Keywords: Occupation Computer Applications Dairy Products Electronic Health Records Farmer Farmworker Farm Workers Health Care Personnel Injuries Injury Job Analysis Medical Records Occupations Physicians Return To Work Surveillance Surveillance Programs Website Work Analysis Work Capacity

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• ISSN:
  2313-576X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Washington ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  40
• Volume:
  5
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056854
• Citation:
  Safety 2019 Jun; 5(2):40
• Contact Point Address:
  Bryan Weichelt, National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute (MCRI), Marshfield, WI 54449, USA
• Email:
  weichelt.bryan@marshfieldresearch.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2019
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110930
• Source Full Name:
  Safety
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:701ab21fba515516f34ab3d205b187964506e18797a1863341b09870b76e666884edc3c90373b46c4623f2513acf574d8c5706179056889f06238569f5782374
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/214352/cdc_214352_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 551.10 KB ]