An Evaluation of the North American Guidelines for Children’s Agricultural Tasks

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• Personal Author:
  Wright SM
• Description:
  This technical report summarizes a three year project to evaluate the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT), a safety intervention designed to reduce childhood agricultural injuries by helping farm parents assign age appropriate farm work to their children. Based on 69 qualitative interviews with farm parents with children living at home from three regional sites and a national telephone survey with farm adults with children living at home, the report presents findings in terms of six major project aims. Overall, the report highlights significant disagreement with NAGCAT recommendations and skepticism about their usefulness. While willingness to follow the recommendations is relatively high, it largely reflects agreement with the guidelines, suggesting that changes in behavior may be low. The report suggests that much of the disagreement with and skepticism towards the NAGCAT is influenced by different beliefs and attitudes that farm parents have regarding the importance of children's labor, the role of farm experience in affecting readiness to perform farm work, the risk of childhood farm injuries, and the validity of safety expert knowledge. Various ways to address these differences in beliefs and attitudes so as to enhance the effectiveness of the NAGCAT are suggested. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Behavior Farmers Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Men Mental Health Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Women Workload

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-industry Attitude Children Exposure-levels Humans Injuries Machine-operation Manual-materials-handling Physical-capacity Physical-fitness Psychology Risk-factors Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Tractors Work-capability Work-capacity

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• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 10 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-58
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042266
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R01-OH-004257, 2004 Dec; :1-58
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr. Sue Marie Wright, Ceuter for Farm Health and Safety, Depart of Sociology, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA 99004
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Eastern Washington University
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20000930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20040929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a25a2b3bdb660d6e9ff3498c7e97deb696a301d375e920b32c124fea1d0b9022192191868a0695995b23885b38f2103eda91f14c4b3db89c30038f3eb4450538
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218514/cdc_218514_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.55 MB ]