Public Policy and the Next Generation of Farmers, Ranchers, Producers, and Agribusiness Leaders

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• Personal Author:
  Gasperini, Frank A.
• Description:
  The emerging, next generation of people engaged as managers in agriculture differs from the "babyboomer" farm generation that relishes certain traditions and an agrarian lifestyle. These futuristic producers and managers have been raised in a society that promulgates safety environment rules.They have witnessed lives saved by automobile seatbelts and lives improved from clean air and water.They know the basic cost of effective safety compliance is relatively fixed, regardless of the number of employees, and they are willing to invest resources that ensure a culture of safety, because it is economically beneficial, socially responsible, and probably required by the companies to whom they need to market their products. These same millennials understand that society and their customers will not continue to tolerate the high rate of agricultural injuries and deaths indefinitely. Public policy as a means to improve agricultural workers' safety and health is likely to be less resisted by the next generation of farmers, ranchers, producers, and agribusiness leaders who, regardless of legal or regulatory pressure, will implement internal business policies emphasizing safety, health, sustainability, and social justness as they understand it. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Education Farmers Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Safety Author Keywords: Farm Safety Employees Farm Workers Hazards Next Generation Safety Culture Safety Measures Safety Practices Safety Programs
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Virginia ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066982
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2017 Oct; 22(4):312-315
• Contact Point Address:
  Frank A. Gasperini, Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA), PO Box 2506, Leesburg, VA 20177
• Email:
  frank@ashca.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20250929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1b83e0d771a7fec76a47ad7fd8f38955c6d0381cbc1e5815d80a1fb61ca59dae4293a3e9b249927dfd42b21b46fba042b60ffe6c9049983f1306018cb4f07d75
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230737/cdc_230737_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 826.37 KB ]