SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: NCERA_old197 : Agricultural Safety and Health Research and Extension
- Period Covered: 10/02/2015 to 09/30/2016
- Date of Report: 09/14/2016
- Annual Meeting Dates: 05/31/2016 to 06/01/2016
Participants
Connie Baggett, Penn State University Bob Aherin, University of Illinois Dennis Murphy, Penn State University Michael L. Pate, Utah State University Linda Fetzer, Penn State University Aaron Yoder, University of Nebraska-Omaha Kitty Hendricks, NIOSH (telephone) S. Dee Jepsen, The Ohio State University Bill Field, Purdue University Aida Balsano, NIFA Brad Rein, NIFA John Shutske, University of Wisconsin Marshall Martin, Purdue University, Administrative Advisor Marcel Hacault, Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (telephone) Mark Purschwitz, University of Kentucky (telephone) Karen Funkenbush, University of Missouri (telephone) Chuck Schwab, Iowa State University (telephone) Marsha Salzwedel, National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (telephone)
Accomplishments
- Short-term Outcomes:Adoption of emerging technology to improve grain bin entry safety. These include life line and anchor points. Recent project developments are investigating use of wireless technology to monitor agricultural worker health.
- Outputs:Bill Field with Funding from the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health and Safety published the Technical White Paper on Confined Spaces, ASABE grain bin standard revision and adoption, Draft Revision of National Research Agenda.
- Activities:Publications and outreach documents reviewed by subcommittee to revise National Research Agenda, Reporting form developed and adopted by committee to document committee members activities, a new FReSH leadership structure was developed, A new project lead by Aaron Yoder called i-Three project was created between FReSH CoP and Wearable Technology Learning Network. .
- Milestones:eXtension FReSH community of practice currently totals over 100 members from over 40 universities and organizations. Social media venues are AgSafety4U Facebook and Twitter accounts. In FReSH’s first year (2012-2013), there were 11,802 unique visitors to the page compared to 45,186 visitors in the fourth year (2015-2016).
Impacts
- NCERA 197 committee members have generated over $1.28 million in support and approximately 13,400 workers have received training. The significant impact of this committee's work is in response to addressing the problem of agricutlural safety and halth that take the lives of 30-35 people a year in agricultural work places
Publications
Committee on Agricultural Safety and Health Research and Extension. 2016 Research and Extension Agenda for Agricultural Confined Spaces. USDA-NIFA. Washington D.C.