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Program participants. Over 18 conferences, workshops, and symposia have been
held since 1991 to address childhood agricultural injury, minority-group popula-
tions, logging, and safety in the fishing industry.
The outputs from Goal 5 also include extensive partnerships with other orga-
nizations to communicate and transfer knowledge to employers and employees.
Although researchers have long recognized the lack of correspondence between
knowledge, on the one hand, and attitudes and behaviors related to safety and
health practices in farm populations, on the other (Murphy, 1992; Elkind, 1993;
Freeman et al., 2003), a great deal of NIOSH staff effort has gone into providing
educational materials. There are many other products of the NIOSH research ac-
tivities and uses as evidenced in Box 8-1, Research to Practice.
The evidence package provides examples of program efforts over the last 15
years and, most recently, new intervention research associated with the rollover
protective structure (ROPS) program in 23 states. Other examples cited include
the reduction in dairy injuries, the youth safety training program, the reduction
in green tobacco sickness, and the use of appropriate eyewear in Illinois and
Michigan.
AFF Program staff collected case reports of rollovers to use in developing real-
istic stories. These were used to develop a ROPS notebook for farmers and to assess
its effectiveness. The involvement of NIOSH AFF staff is not clearly described.
INTERMEDIATE OUTCOMES
The National Agriculture Safety Database (NASD) Web site was created at
the request of NIOSH agricultural extension agreement participants to provide
a national information resource for the purposes of dissemination, leveraging
resources, and avoiding duplication of efforts. “It is widely recognized and heavily
used by the diverse community involved in agriculture (farmers, agribusinesses,
universities, and government agencies).” The Web site receives over 500,000 hits per
month from 75,000 unique users. It contains over 3,000 publications and links to
other organizations. However, only 34 states are listed as contributing to the NASD.
That is odd inasmuch as all the Ag Centers are contributing, and they cover all the
states. In fact, although recent reports from Washington state had been submitted
by the PNASH Center, Washington is not listed among the states for which one
can get information. Recent examples of new materials include the ATV Safety
Packet from the Children's Safety Network, submitted in 2006. The NASD may
need better funding or a mechanism to incorporate all the states into the database
via the Ag Centers.
The National Ag Safety Disc, a PC-based CD-ROM that contains a compen-
dium of educational and information resources, was released in 1994 and after
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