University of California, Davis
Relevance of NIOSH to agricultural health and safety
Stephen Olenchock, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV
In 1990, Congress appropriated funds to the National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health (NIOSH) to develop and perform a National Program in surveillance,
research, and education related to agriculture. In the following year, the
Surgeon General’s Conference on Agricultural Safety and Health was
convened. Over time, ten agricultural health and safety centers were established
competitively, and the National Program was expanded to specifically include
a center that was dedicated to child safety issues in agriculture.
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Programs such as Community Partners for Healthy Farming were initiated along with a grants program in child agricultural safety and health research. Recently, NIOSH again announced requests for applications for each of these four programs. NIOSH expanded information dissemination efforts by launching NIOSHeNews and continues to support the National Agricultural Safety Data Base. National attention to injuries and deaths related to farm tractors was the focus of the NIOSH Agricultural Centers’ Tractor Workshop in February 2003. Throughout all the limbs of the National Program, NIOSH remains sensitive to the needs of underserved populations in agriculture, with emphasis on the migrating and seasonal work force. NIOSH continues to work directly with our external partners to provide opportunities that may lead to the improvement of the health and well-being of all agricultural workers and their families.
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