Agricultural injuries and illness - the health professional's role in prevention.

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• Personal Author:
  Shutske J
• Description:
  Principles are not unique. Any labor intensive industry. Industries which include frequent contact with biologically active inputs and outputs, heavy equipment, etc. industries with a diverse worker population. Learn the questions that need to be asked. Technology is changing rapidly. Increased use of biotechnology and geneticallyengineered crops/animals. National Safety Council data only includes people working; excludes children below age 16 (even when working). Healthcare resources and training - health professional education, EMS education, Money for rural EMS. Strong feelings against regulation. OSHA only has jurisdiction on farms with >10 employees. Strong sense that education will solve problems. Intervention research clearly indicates that one shot programs have minimal effect. There is rarely a magic bullet. Successful programs use multiple delivery channels and target multiple audiences. The community infrastructure -- anyone who delivers goods, services, and information must be part of the target. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Agriculture Animals Education Farmers Food-Processing Industry Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Age-factors; Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-processes; Agricultural-workers; Agriculture; Animal-products; Children; Disaster-prevention; Education; Equipment-design; Equipment-operators; Equipment-reliability; Exposure-levels; Exposure-methods; Farmers; Food-processing-industry; Injuries; Injury-prevention; Risk-analysis; Safety-education; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Safety-research; Stress
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Presentation
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-68
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038315
• Citation:
  Medical Resident Community Health Workshops, February and September 2003, Maplewood and Robbinsdale, Minnesota. 2003 Feb; :1-68
• Contact Point Address:
  John M. Shutske, Workplace Safety & Health Specialist and AgrAbility Project Director, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota, 390 Eckles Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108-6005
• Email:
  shutske@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Medical Resident Community Health Workshops, February and September 2003, Maplewood and Robbinsdale, Minnesota
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/245877/cdc_245877_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]