The Future of Agricultural Safety and Health: North American Agricultural Safety Summit, February 2018, Scottsdale, Ariz

Details

• Personal Author:
  Heiberger, Scott
• Description:
  In order to keep pace with world population growth, we need to double food production in the next 20 years without doubling land in agriculture, said Joel Sherman, vice president, safety and corporate affairs, Grimmway Enterprises. That should be in the back of everyone's mind who is concerned about agriculture and concerned about safety. As food production ramps up, so will the percentage of workers who are new to agriculture, posing a large safety challenge. We get these in-and-out employees through guest worker programs as a stop-gap, and then the question becomes, 'How do we train them in such a short timeframe,' said Lourdes Gonzales, director of human resources, Gowan Group. Sherman agreed: Twenty-five percent of our injuries are to employees who have been on the job less than a year. Led by its industry members, and informed by its academic and research members, the Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America (ASHCA) is uniquely positioned to match evidence-based safety interventions with production practices and emerging safety issues. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Farmers Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural Workers Intervention Safety Education Training Work Capability Worker Safety
• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 pdf pages
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20066881
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2018 Jul; 23(3):302-304
• Email:
  Heiberger.Scott@marshfieldresearch.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• 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:c4844eba34813783e67194ded4b0d5a9712ab9c606a3009e6043814d4db472e3373488f9885159a6858b8cb30c2e80a69233cc6b836cae0f628bb72a4f1412d7
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/230747/cdc_230747_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.00 MB ]