184451 Agricultural Safety and Health in North Carolina; the Production and Promotion of Video-Based Training in Spanish and English

Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 11:15 AM

Regina Cullen Luginbuhl, MS , Agricultural Safety and Health Bureau, Occupational Safety and Health Division, NC Department of Labor, Raleigh, NC
The Agricultural Safety and Health Bureau of the North Carolina Department of Labor (NCDOL) is charged with the inspection of farmworker housing and with the prevention of agricultural workplace injuries. The agricultural workplace is a dangerous one;seven heat stress fatalities have occurred in the past several years in North Carolina. In addition, incidents involving farm machinery have injured or killed workers. In an effort to prevent these injuries and fatalities, this Bureau worked with N.C. State University (NCSU) film production to create a series of 4 DVDs in Spanish with English subtitles on each of these topics. The topics focus on heat stress; tobacco balers; tobacco harvesters; fork lifts. The NCDOL Bureau was responsible for the creation and production of each segment, and NCSU provided the technical support and expertise required. Each of the four segments was filmed on several NC farms in 2007 and features farmworkers employed there. Brochures are available in English and in Spanish in conjunction with the DVD.

Learning Objectives:
Create a series of four short training DVDs to prevent the agricultural injuries identified through workers compensation claims as those with a high probability of causing serious injury or death.

Keywords: Agricultural Work Safety, Hispanic

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: For the past 18 years I have been the head of the agency that conducts migrant housing inspections, agricultural accident and fatality investigations, and outreach training for growers and farmworkers.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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