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Designing new safety implements for a changing agriculture: Workers, farmers and injury
Designing new safety implements for a changing agriculture: Workers, farmers and injury
Monday, November 17, 2014: 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Oral
This is an abstract for a 90-minute session. The group session entitled "Designing new safety implements for a changing agriculture: Workers, farmers and injury" (session abstract 304828) is grouped with five papers requested to be presented in the following order: "All that we herd: using qualitative methods to understand language, barriers and challenges in a changing dairy industry" (304899), "Beyond worker training – the role of the community health workers in sustaining safe practices in an occupational setting" (304902), "Facilitating the return-to-work of injured and ill farm workers: an online decoder for clinicians" (303643), "Surveillance of Disease and Injury in Wisconsin Dairy Farmers and Workers" (304731) and "Clash between agrarian ethics and industrialization" (304287).
Session Objectives: Describe changes in large animal agriculture and its workforce;
Identify challenges and best practices to address health and safety needs of the changing workforce;
Discuss the health and safety implications of growing immigrant workforce in large animal production.
Moderator:
Iris Anne Reyes, MPH
8:30am
9:18am
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Injury Control and Emergency Health Services
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)
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