The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety

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• Personal Author:
  Fathallah F ; Hammock B ; Last J ; Leigh JP ; Pinkerton K ; Schenker M
• Description:
  Western agriculture is the most intensive and productive in the world but differs in many ways from the rest of the country. The overall goal of the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS) at UC Davis is to improve the health and safety of farmers, farm family members, and hired farmworkers and their families in western agriculture. UC Davis is uniquely situated to address these issues because of the co-locations of its Schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and College of Engineering. UC Davis is a land grant and a research university located in the heart of the California's Central Valley. The multidisciplinary expertise of the Center faculty enables varied, largely field-oriented research projects, outreach and interventions. During this cycle, the Outreach program provided leadership in innovative efforts to improve the health of immigrant farmworkers. Areas of focus included creating bilingual/bicultural health and safety programs and materials for immigrant farmworkers, exploring the link between respiratory disease and exposures in Western farming environments, and engineering better ergonomic solutions to reduce acute and cumulative trauma injuries. A major effort in this cycle was to understand and develop effective interventions to prevent heat-related illness among agricultural workers. Another study evaluated exposures and respiratory disease in new laying-hen facilities. We continued our efforts to design better-engineered solutions to counter the musculoskeletal stresses of labor-intensive agriculture and to transfer this improved technology to the workplace. We also characterized respiratory toxicants in Western agriculture. Newer and more efficient pesticide bioassays were developed and linked to exposure studies of agricultural workers. The Center disseminated research findings and news about its activities through traditional and new forms of media. The comprehensive evaluation program assessed Center projects and activities for their success and effectiveness with stakeholders. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Biological Assay Emigration And Immigration Ergonomics Farmers Hot Temperature Livestock Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural Centers Bioassays Heat Exposure Immigrant Workers Information Dissemination MSD Musculoskeletal Disorders Respiratory Diseases
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Final Cooperative Agreement Report
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  1-61
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20062110
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2022-100396
• 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, U54-OH-007550, 2017 Sep; :1-61
• Contact Point Address:
  PI: Marc Schenker, MD, MPH, University of California, Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616
• Email:
  mbschenker@ucdavis.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of California - Davis
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:beb1a65d90fa5cab073c34b34dcb03d05202454933f887ee1e7dd5d67767f14a6f1bdac2de23398b8bc166dcb3dbae46a5c220b24e2f7e7ec63e4b096c8949fb
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/219045/cdc_219045_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.05 MB ]