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D.
Chamberlain and E.
Hallman
NIOSH Education and Information Division
"Farmstead
Safety: A Family Activity" incorporates safety education in
a farm safety checklist/activity. The intended goal of the
activity is for farm family members and workers to learn about
potential safety hazards that are commonly found on farms.
They can then identify hazards on their particular farm and
begin to take action to make it a safer place to work and
live. Their action plans might include eliminating hazards,
making safety modifications to the work site, or changing
their behavior to work safely around known hazards.
The
checklist is designed to be self-administered by farm family
members. Components found on the farm are separated into eight
different blocks with five questions in each block. Given
that each farm and family is different, it is up to the family
what sections of the activity are important for them to complete.
Explanations of why items are important to be inspected from
a safety standpoint and/or how a situation can be improved
are given for each question. Space is provided on each page
to rite down an action plan to correct unsafe situations.
Discussions
about parenting issues concerning children on the farm (for
example) are prompted by some questions. It may be possible
for a family to come up with unique solutions for child safety
on the farm that do not conflict with their particular cultural
values.
This
education-based farm safety activity is one method of providing
prevention programming. With this type of self-education,
we can further our goal toward reducing the number of agricultural
injuries and fatalities.
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NASD Review: 04/2002
This
research abstract was extracted from a portion of the proceedings
of "Agricultural Safety and Health: Detection, Prevention
and Intervention," a conference presented by the Ohio State
University and the Ohio Department of Health, sponsored by
the Centers for Disease Control/National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health.
D.
Chamberlain and E. Hallman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
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