Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center [2017]

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (PNASH) is one of 11 agricultural research and prevention centers funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Founded in 1996, PNASH addresses local needs for our farming, fishing, and forestry work forces; also focusing on the needs of vulnerable populations including women, farmworkers, and immigrant forestry workers. The Center is now entering a new cycle (2016-2021) with multiple innovative research projects. PNASH works with partners in industry, labor, health services, professional organizations, and academia. PNASH is located at the University of Washington School of Public Health in Seattle, Washington and serves four states in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska). This snapshot shows recent accomplishments and upcoming work. What are our priorities? 1. Reducing exposure to high-risk pesticides in agricultural work and communities. 2. Preventing heat-related illness among agricultural workers. 3. Addressing serious injuries among dairy, forestry, and commercial fishing workers. What do we do? 1. Conduct field studies to evaluate new technologies, controls and practices to reduce hazards. 2. Work with industry partners to identify opportunities for system and workplace-based solutions. 3. Develop analytical systems for surveillance research that bridge multiple agency data to assess trends and address hazards. 4. Practice community-based and participatory action research to understand priorities, and partner in the development of injury and illness prevention programs. 5. Select projects on the basis of: the seriousness of the hazard, the number of people affected, and the probability that research will make a difference. What have we accomplished? 1. Released a new pesticide safety training video on September 2016 to help growers comply with the revised EPA Worker Protection Standard and field sanitation standards for fieldworkers (e.g., GLOBAL GAP). 2. Completed with our research partners 100 interviews and 25 case studies among immigrant Latino forest workers and their employers, with a focus on the cause of serious injuries, what motivated the reporting of the injuries, and how to address safety and medical needs. 3. Published new findings on workplace heat stress risk factors, and released bilingual heat illness educational materials that are widely used by health care providers and safety educators. 4. Developed and pilot-tested a new mobile App for pesticide handlers that provides pesticide product labels in English and Spanish. 5. Significantly reduced exposures to Washington state pesticide handlers through PNASH research and collaborations with producers, workers, state agencies, and health care providers. What's next? 1. Safe Dairies: Partner with Washington dairies and 100 newly employed workers to identify effective safety training programs and solutions. Workers can also join a study to assess if there is a "healthy dairy" effect (where workers develop immune benefits). 2. Spanish Forest Safety Education: Create educational resources and glossaries in Spanish for logging and forestry employers and workers. 3. Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment: Work with Washington employers and women farm-workers to stop abuses and set a national model. View the trailer of this first-of-its kind awareness and prevention video. 4. Fishing Safety: Develop new surveillance system, which combines data from NIOSH and US Coast Guard to analyze severe injuries among commercial fishing workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Community Health Services Dairy Products Education Emigration And Immigration Family Farmers Forestry Hazardous Substances Heat Stress Disorders Hot Temperature Hunting Insecticides Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Software Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural Centers Agricultural Chemicals Agricultural Industry Community Based Community Health Computer Applications Dairy Products Disease Prevention Families Farm Workers Fishing Fishing Industry Hazard Labels Health Hazards Heat Exposure Heat Stress Immigrant Workers Injuries Injury Prevention Language Barrier Logging Industry Logging Safety Logging Workers Occupational Health Programs Occupational Safety Programs Partnership Pesticides Pesticides And Agricultural Chemicals Racial Factors Special Populations Surveillance Training Traumatic Injuries Worker Health Worker Safety

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB2017109
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Handouts/Flyers
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; Georgia ; Idaho ; Oregon ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OPPE - Office of Program Planning and Evaluation ; OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20049209
• 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, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-109, 2017 Jan; :1
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Performing Organization:
  University of Washington
• 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:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/44022/cdc_44022_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 138.77 KB ]