National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety

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The National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS) is a part of the National Farm Medicine Center, one of the research centers of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.^[1] The center is located headquartered in Marshfield, WI. and is primarily funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), which is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of 2016, the director, is Barbara C. Lee, PhD.

History

The National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (NCCRAHS) was established in 1997 ,^[2][3] one of ten centers funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health ^[4] The mission of the NCCRAHS is to, “enhance the health and safety of all children exposed to hazards associated with agricultural work and rural environments.”.^[5][6][7][8]

Projects and Products

• Agritourism began as a project to develop safety and health guidelines specific to children for farmers and operators of US agritourism businesses.^[9][10] In 2007 the center created their first set of safety resources for agritourism operators and launched a new program - Integrating Safety into Agritourism,^[11] housed at www.SafeAgritourism.org.
• Cultivate Safety is a website for farm parents. It housse materials, resources, and content specifically geared toward parents of children who work, live, or visit farms.^[12] Out of the campaign grew a "Parent First, Farmer Second" radio ad series that received the 2013 Plambeck Award, Best Series.^[13][14]
• Mini-grants are provided to organizations, in the United States to support feasibility and pilot projects on prevention of childhood agricultural disease and injury.^{[15][16][17][18]}
• Model Policy is a voluntary guideline outlining best practices for employers that hire young workers. Information is included regarding the rationale for age-appropriate assignments, training needs for adolescent workers, ideal supervision, and mentoring by adult workers.

NAGCAT Guideline - Feeding Milk to Calves

• North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks is a collection of guidelines to assist parents and others in assigning age-appropriate tasks for children (ages 7–16) that live or work on ranches or farms in North America ^[11][7][19]
• Nurture is the center's newsletter. "^[20]
• Safe Play was a project that designed the first comprehensive guidelines for constructing an outdoor safe play area on a farm.^[21][22][23]
• Safety Guidelines for Hired Adolescent Farmworkers is a series of 7 posters adviseing on supervisor responsibilities for ensuring work conditions are appropriate and adequate, and also used as an assessment tool for teen workers. These guidelines are available in English and Spanish .^{[6][24][25][26]}
• News Clippings data provides a source of injury and fatality data for researchers, academics, and government agencies. The center maintains the only publicly available database of news clippings data on injuries and deaths in agriculture, housed at www.AgInjuryNews.org.^[27]

References

1. "Farm-related childhood deaths are down, but still too many". southwestfarmpress.com. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
2. Mulhern, B (January 2008). "Saving Lives: the Marshfield-based National Farm Medicine Center and its director, Barbara Lee, work to reduce traumatic agricultural injuries and deaths.". Wisconsin Corporate Report: 26–28.
3. Hard, David L. (2012-01-01). "Partnering Strategies for Childhood Agricultural Safety and Health". Journal of agromedicine 17 (2): 225–231. doi:10.1080/1059924X.2012.658341. ISSN 1059-924X. PMC 4678869. PMID 22490034.
4. "NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search - 20038609 - National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety.". www.cdc.gov. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
5. Donham, Kelly (2006). Agricultural Medicine Occupational and Environmental Health for the Health Professions. Blackwell Publishing. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-8138-1803-0.
6. "Safety Guidelines for Hired Adolescent Farm Workers - SaGHAF". www.migrantclinician.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
7. "Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) - Welcome". www.nagcat.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
8. CHS Foundation (January 2016). "C". p. 30.
9. "Integrating Safety into Agritourism > Home". www.safeagritourism.com. Retrieved 2015-09-16.
10. Woods, Katie. ""Safety is no accident": Agricultural Safety Awareness Program Week - Farm and Dairy". Farm and Dairy. Retrieved 2016-03-08.
11. OTR/L, Robin Tutor-Marcom MPH; RN, Annette Greer PhD MSN; PhD, Maria Clay; Ellis, Tammy; Thompson, Tami; MPH, Esther Seisay Adam-Samura (2013-04-01). "Qualitative Assessment of Agritourism Safety Guidelines: A Demonstration Project". Journal of Agromedicine 18 (2): 107–116. doi:10.1080/1059924X.2013.766146. ISSN 1059-924X. PMID 23540301.
12. "About Us | Cultivate Safety". cultivatesafety.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
13. "‘Parent First, Farmer Second’ radio ads win national honors | Hoards Dairyman". www.hoards.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
14. Ellis, Tammy M.; Lee, Barbara C.; Schwebel, David; Salzwedel, Marsha; Flyte, Jason; Heiberger, Scott; Marlenga, Barbara (2014-04-03). "Effectiveness of a Media Campaign to Motivate Farm Parents to Seek Child Farm Injury Prevention Information Online". Journal of Agromedicine 19 (2): 211–212. doi:10.1080/1059924X.2014.891481. ISSN 1059-924X.
15. "Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Mini-grants". www.marshfieldresearch.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
16. "Funding Details: Agricultural Health and Safety Special Project and Pilot Study Funds (Mini-grant Program) - Rural Health Information Hub". www.ruralhealthinfo.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
17. Archibald, Joy. "Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center – Ag Safety Grants up to $20,000 Offered by National Children’s Center". umash.umn.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
18. "Ag safety grants up to $20,000 offered by National Children’s Center – Vegetable Growers News". vegetablegrowersnews.com. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
19. "Resources on Rural Injury Prevention: Child and Youth Agricultural Injuries" (PDF).
20. "Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Nurture Newsletter". www.marshfieldresearch.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
21. "Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Safe Play". www.marshfieldresearch.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
22. "11 Ways to Create a Safe Play Area for Children on the Farm". Rural Mutual Insurance. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
23. "Safe Play Areas | Rural Mutual Insurance". Rural Mutual Insurance. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
24. "Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation - Safety Guidelines for Hired Adolescent Farm Workers (SaGHAF)". www.marshfieldresearch.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.
25. Lee, Barbara C (2007). "Agricultural employers’ hiring and safety practices for adolescent workers.". Journal of Agriculture Safety and Health.
26. Lee BC, Westaby JD, Benetti L, Chyou P, Peters M, Purschwitz MA. Safety practices for employers and supervisors of adolescent farmworkers (STESAF). Summer Conference of the National Institute for Farm Safety Inc. Wintergreen Resort, Wintergreen, VA. 2005; Paper No. T-05-08.
27. "Ag Injury News Clippings". www.aginjurynews.org. Retrieved 2016-02-17.