Citation

Canan BD, Asti L, Heaney C, Ashida S, Renick K, Xiang H, Stallones L, Jepsen SD, Crawford JM, Wilkins JR. J. Agric. Saf. Health 2011; 17(2): 127-146.

Affiliation

Division of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Society of Agricultural Engineers)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21675283

Abstract

Unintentional injury is the leading cause of death in the U.S. among persons 1 to 44 years of age. Over one million children and adolescents in the U.S. live, work, and/or play on farms, where injury risk is relatively high compared to other settings. In an attempt to reduce the number of childhood agricultural injuries occurring on farms, the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) was developed to assist parents or other caregivers in assigning developmentally appropriate chores to youth exposed to agricultural hazards. The results presented here are from a longitudinal study in which we obtained (self-reported) daily chore, injury, and safety behavior data from children and adolescents. We focused on one NAGCAT chore, cleaning a service alley in a stall barn, in order to estimate the extent of compliance with specific work practice recommendations contained in the NAGCAT. Our results indicated that among the four NAGCAT-recommended safety practices for cleaning service alleys in stall barns (wearing nonskid shoes, leather gloves, a respirator, and eye protection), wearing non-skid shoes was the only safety practice reported with any degree of regularity. Overall, boys were more likely to wear non-skid shoes compared to girls. In addition, older youth were generally more likely to report higher work practice compliance compared to younger youth.

Language: en