Agricultural Health and Safety. Recent Advances
Informa Healthcare, July 1997
Protect yourself from machinery accidents, skin cancer, pesticide exposure, and so much more!Maintaining safety on the farm is a greater challenge than ever. Farmers are trying to expand their farm size and increase production while coping with labor shortages, adverse weather, and equipment problems. Agricultural Health and Safety gives you an in-depth look at these issues and presents effective new approaches to intervention and education for farm health and safety problems. Agricultural Health and Safety discusses new research, education, and prevention programs that have been tested from Maine to California and from Australia to Sweden. These important scientific and analytical studies were presented at the 1996 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Conference in Iowa. In addition to suggesting new ways to deal with the recognized physical hazards of farming, Agricultural Health and Safety discusses the often neglected role of mental health. It examines the role of stress in causing accidents and the risks of depression and suicide among agricultural workers. Agricultural Health and Safety considers a broad range of problems and effective interventions, including:
- insurance incentives for safe farms
- accident-prevention programs
- training for responding to farm emergencies
- cutting the risks of accident for farm children
- the ergonomics of milking
- teaching farm youth about sun safety
- the risks of exposure to pesticides, fertilizers, and other environmental hazardsAgricultural Health and Safety offers practical information on the broad spectrum of health and safety hazards in the farm setting and outlines effective strategies for eliminating them. In addition, it opens new avenues for further study and research. This comprehensive book is an essential resource for agricultural safety and health researchers, program professionals, health care providers in farming communities, professors and students in agromedicine and agricultural programs, and agricultural workers.
ContentsIntroduction to the Proceedings of the Third NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Conference
Section 1: Program Reports Rapporteur Report: Plenary Session Lessons Learned and Hypotheses Generated From the W. K. Kellogg Agricultural Safety and Health Initiative Cluster Evaluation Report on The University of Iowa International Workshop on Agricultural Health and Safety
Section 2: Airborne Exposure, Lund Disease, Exposure Assessment Rapporteur Report: Airborne Exposure, Lung Disease, Exposure Assessment Air Quality Assessments in the Vicinity of Swine Production Facilities Strategies for Effective On-Farm Hazard Surveillance Visits The Keokuk County Rural Health Study: Preliminary Results of Environmental Exposure Assessments Respiratory Health and Allergy Among Young Farmers and Non-Farming Rural Males in Denmark: The SUS Study Humoral Immune Responses to Pig Urinary Proteins and Respiratory Health of Pig Farmers Potential Predictors of Airborne Concentrations of Aflatoxin B1(place 1 in subscript)
Section 3: Training, Intervention, Communication Rapporteur Report: Intervention, Education, and Communication Agricultural Occupational Health Nurse Training and Certification: Addressing the Need for Occupational Health Professionals in Agricultural Environments Difficult Decisions: A Simulation That Illustrates Cost Effectiveness of Farm Safety Behaviors Insurance Incentives for Safe Farms Health and Safety in Australian Agriculture--Linking Research, Data and Action Agricultural Chemical Safety Awareness Program for Farm Wives and Children
Section 4: Pesticides, Ergonomics, Priority Assessment Rapporteur Report: Pesticides, Ergonomics, Priority Assessment Change in Cholinesterase Levels and Self-Reported Symptoms Over Two Years The Hazards of Organophosphates: UK Risk Assessments of Sheep Dips in Historical and Contemporary Context Ergonomics of Cow Milking in Sweden
Section 5: Stress, Mental Health, Risk Assessment, Community Health Rapporteur Report: Mental Health Stress as a Risk Factor for Agricultural Injuries: Comparative Data from The Iowa Farm Family Health and Hazard Survey (1994) and the Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll (1989) Influences on Farm Safety Practice in Eastern Washington Depression and Risk Factors Among Iowa Farmers Safety Practices Among Limited Resource Farmers in North Carolina Health and Safety Issues Relating to Maine?s Fishing Industry Rural Counties With Large Meatpacking Firms: Implications for Community Health The Keokuk County Rural Health Study: Methodology and Demographics
Section 6: Injury, Enforcement, Machinery Rapporteur Report: Injury Control Agricultural Injuries and Illnesses in Texas: Using Bureau of Labor Statistics Programs for Surveillance Occupational Agricultural Injury Surveillance in California: Preliminary Results from the Nurses Using Rural Sentinel Events (NURSE) Project Agricultural Injuries in Norway Risk Factors for Injury in Rural Iowa: Preliminary Data from the Keokuk County Rural Health Study Strength Test for Pre-ROPS Tractor Axle Housings ROPS Design for Pre-ROPS Tractors Non-Fatal Tractor Accidents and Their Prevention
Section 7: Children Child Labor Issues in the International Setting Family Farm Seminars Brief Communication: A Pilot Case-Control Study of Injuries in Farm Children--Focus on Supervision Issues
Section 8: Poster Presentations A Design for TailGate Safety Training in Ohio An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Community Oriented Primary Care and Agromedicine to Pre-Health Professions Students Planning Rural Practice Logging-Type Fatalities in the U. S. Production Agriculture Industry, 1980?1992 Effect of Dynamics on the Stability Index of Tractors Steps in Meeting the Needs of Kentucky?s Migrant Farmworkers Farm Response: An Accident Preparedness Course for Farm Families Communicating Safe Sun Practices to Farm Youth: A Model and Field Test of a Proposed Curriculum
Section 9: Appendixes Appendix I: List of Accepted Abstracts for the March 1996 Third Annual NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Conference Appendix II: List of Participants for the March 1996 Third Annual NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Conference Appendix III: List of Participants for the March 27?29, 1996 International Workshop on Agricultural Health and Safety Index Reference Notes Included
Stanley H Schuman
Kelley J. Donham The University of Iowa.
Jan Lay
Risto Rautiainen Univ Of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
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