Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Research at NIOSH Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2008) / Chapter Skim
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The NIOSH Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Research Program (the AFF Program) is the third to undergo such evaluation: the Hearing Loss Research Program and the Mining Safety and Health Research Program were the first two programs evalu 15
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EVALUATION APPROACH The committee was charged with reviewing the AFF Program, evaluating the relevance of its work to improvements in occupational safety and health, and evalu ating its impact on reducing workplace illnesses and injuries. As suggested in the statement of task, the committee's review was guided by the Framework Document (Appendix A)
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In conducting the review, the evaluation committee will address the following elements: 1. Assessment of the program's contribution through occupational safety and health research to reductions in workplace hazardous exposures, illnesses, or injuries through an assessment of the relevance of the program's activities to the improvement of a. occupational safety and health, and an evaluation of the impact that the program's research has had in reducing work b. related hazardous exposures, illnesses, and injuries. The evaluation committee will rate the performance of the program for its relevance and impact using an integer score of 1 to 5.
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18 Intermediate End Inputs Activities Outputs Outcomes Outcomes Production Surveillance Recommendations Inputs Technologies Budget, Staff, Research Publications Facilities, Trained and Improvements Managerial Intervention Investigation Educated Studies Reports Professionals in Occupational Infrastructure, Safety and Extramural Systems Response to Training Materials Demonstrated Health in Requests for Results Agriculture, Assistance Scientific Forestry, and Planning Manuscripts Standards and Fishing Dissemination of Regulations Inputs Information Engineering Surveillance Designs Research to Data, Training and Practice 1-1.eps Stakeholder Education Alternative Needs, Methods Informed Citizens Collaborator Centers of Aims, Excellence Conference Change in Social Goals and Proceedings Norms Subgoals External Factors Economic and Social Conditions and Regulatory Environment FIGURE 1-1 The AFF Program logic model.
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. The Congressional Agricultural Occupational Safety and Health Initiative applies directly to activities in agriculture, but timber harvesting and commercial fishing-related activities are implicitly included.
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: The director of the National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety presented information at the first committee meeting in Janu ary 2007, four Ag Center directors were invited to speak at the second committee meeting in March 2007, the other five directors were queried by the committee for additional information. Evaluation Data Limitations In the 9 months given to conduct the program evaluation, the committee based its assessment of the AFF Program on the "evidence package" (NIOSH, 2006a)
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family operations, and public and congressional debate relative to the role of family farm operations in the agriculture sector has been spirited. However, the committee believes that in the context of NIOSH's agricultural health and safety initiatives the most useful definition of a "family farm" is the one used by Congress in the 1985 Food Security Act: any farm that is organized as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or family corporation and uses less than 1.5 person-years of hired labor per year (U.S.
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That occurs because of absentee ownership (for example, over 50 percent of the land in Iowa) ; targeting of national agricultural policy, which excludes many agricultural commodities; and individual owner, operator, or corporate decisions to remain out of program spheres (Duffy, 2004; Hoppe and Banker, 2006)
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Fatal injury rates are proportionately lower than in the other two AFF sectors (see below) , but nonfatal injuries occur in as many as 10 percent of exposed workers (NIOSH, 2006a)
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The U.S. Coast Guard regulates most aspects of the industry; its Commer cial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Advisory Committee is charged with developing workable recommendations for the health and safety of vessel employees.
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, it was not until 1938 that the farm injury problem attracted national attention at the annual National Safety Congress sponsored by the National Safety Council (Rasmussen, 1989)
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The NSC, an organization dedicated to protecting life and promoting health, con vened annual conferences from the late 1940s onward to highlight intentional and unintentional injuries at agricultural worksites and provided a training and networking venue for state-level agricultural safety specialists and others engaged in agricultural safety. In the 1950s, the National Institute for Farm Safety (NIFS)
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Clinical acumen was gathered to target disease syndromes and acute and chronic injuries related to agricultural work. Clinicians in Canada were hosting international symposia to highlight exposures and results of selected interventions across the whole of North America and in selected European and Asian countries, and Scandinavians in agricultural safety and occupational health developed specific clinical "tracks" at European occupational symposia (see, for example, Dosman and Cockcroft, 1989; Svanström et al., 1989)
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By 1988, state agricultural safety specialists, epidemiologists, policy analysts, and public health professionals were routinely meeting at professional conferences to explore the potential for national congressional action. Working from a template constructed by the Association of Schools of Public Health, they consulted with U.S.
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The first national consensus conference relative to the unintentional injury burden in youth occurred in 1992 (Lee and Gunderson, 1992) ; other formative activities, including development of a National Action Plan for Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention, followed and resulted in the design of a second national initiative that targeted vulnerable child and adolescent populations (NCCAIP, 1996)
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Coast Guard and other groups. Through their combined efforts, Congress enacted the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act (CFIVSA)
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Chapter 11 reviews the program's mechanisms for identifying emerging issues in the AFF work sectors, and identifies issues that merit future attention. Chapter 12 provides recommendations to strengthen the NIOSH AFF Program and increase its relevance and impact.
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