Celebrating 50 Years of Innovation

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• Personal Author:
  Petrea R
• Description:
  The International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health (ISASH) conducted its annual conference June 24th through June 28th 2012 with the theme, "Celebrating 50 Years of innovation in Farm Safety and Health." The conference was held Burlington, Vermont, was hosted by University of Vermont Extension, and drew 150 participants from 24 states and four countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Canada). Participants included occupational safety and health professionals, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, public health professionals, extension safety and health specialists, industrial/farm environment hygienists, ergonomists, professionals from disabled farmer programs and government agencies, representatives of farm equipment manufacturers, as well as farmer-driven organizations. One long-range mission of the annual conference is contributing to the reduction of agricultural injuries and illnesses was accomplished providing IO concurrent sessions with five oral presentations each on current topics of concern. The broad range of topics included on-line education, agricultural medicine and nursing education, and confined spaces, neurobehavioral effects of pesticides, all-terrain vehicles, reaching non-traditional farmers, migrant/seasonal farm-workers, child safety, and rural roadway incidents. Additional research in the form of poster presentations was available for perusal. Another long-range mission is providing national and international leadership in agricultural safety and health. This mission was met through three plenary sessions on the state of agricultural safety and health, equipment roll-over protective structures and ergonomics and agriculture. A four hour professional improvement session on social marketing drew the conference to a close. A specific objective of the annual conference was the exchange and dissemination of information on agricultural injury and health prevention research and activities. This objective was met through the concurrent sessions and through the three off-site tours. The tours included the UVM Morgan Horse facility with stops at a family-owned tree and a family-owned orchard. Other tours included a family-owned dairy and crop farm and a tour of family-owned organic beef farm with a stop at a family-operated sugar making facility. The specific conference objective to provide opportunities for professional development through an environment conducive to networking, collaboration, and linkage-building was met through the provision of a family friendly dinner cruise, breakfasts and lunches, morning and afternoon breaks, free-time during the evenings and a banquet. Each tour guide as well as the principals at the tour location emphasized agricultural safety and health activities as well as examples of hazards that had been remediated. Key findings are based upon the conference evaluation instrument containing 14 questions covering the plenary and all concurrent sessions. Respondents used a 1-4 (excellent, good, fair, poor) ranking for content, presentation quality, and usefulness of information. Responses were requested on all plenary sessions and the concurrent session attended during a specific time period. Findings indicate that overall responses to Content ranged from 90% Excellent to 80%Good (91% of responses). Presentation ranged from 91 % Excellent to 3% Fair (87% of responses) and Usefulness of Information ranged from 95% Excellent to 81 % Good (85% ofresponses). The highest percent of Fair was 15% and the highest percent of Poor was 5%. Yes/No questions were answered in the positive by 89% of respondents. Open-ended questions are addressed below. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Industry Agricultural Safety Farm Workers Information Dissemination Injury Prevention Occupational Safety And Health
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Illinois ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Vermont
• 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:
  1-7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20056091
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-101116
• 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, R13-OH-010285, 2013 Aug; :1-7
• Contact Point Address:
  Robert Petrea, PhD, Ag. & Bio Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
• Email:
  repetrea@illinois.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• Performing Organization:
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20120601
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20130531
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e8871763f095a3506fa41bfc01eca140f9dbf954420dba04d6661e55bc1f8b67fefce87802f4945e041fae12b4b9fd1139f27f91b304d283823e6c8b015f5fae
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218877/cdc_218877_DS1.pdf
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