by cph-manager | Sep 11, 2018
Pesticide Drift in the Midwest Pesticide Drift in the Midwest For many states in the Midwest, a large proportion of land usage is dedicated to agriculture. For example, in Iowa and Indiana, 92 percent and 64 percent of the land is dedicated to crops, respectively. ...
by cph-manager | May 22, 2018
Does your organization have a community-based outreach or educational project aimed at improving health and safety of agricultural workers or rural populations? Have you ever considered applying for a pilot grant to help fund your work and test new, innovative, outreach methods?
We invite you to participate in a webinar, “Pilot Grant Writing Tips for Community Based Organizations”. Individuals from community organizations, extension, health care providers, and students from all backgrounds are encouraged to attend. The webinar will be held on June 6th 2018 from 12- 1 pm (Central Time). To join via Zoom Online, follow the link: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/523548695
Or join the Facebook Event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2088986017981148/
The SLIDES and notes presented during this webinar are available this LINK.
Unlike many grant writing seminars that charge fees for participation, this 1 hour webinar is free and open to the public. Participants in the webinar will learn how to formulate an outreach project idea, write specific aims, describe the project’s significance, and develop a program plan. Specific documents like cover letters, budgets, timelines, and letters of support will be explained.
This workshop will be co-hosted by Dr. Jenna Gibbs and Dr. Risto Rautiainen. Dr. Gibbs is the current pilot project coordinator at the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health at the University of Iowa, and Dr. Rautiainen is the current Center Director of the Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health at the University of Nebraska. Both programs offer yearly pilot grants to community-based organizations working to improve the health and safety of agricultural workers.
Please note: This workshop will be most informative to individuals who work in agricultural safety and health, since most examples will highlight activities to prevent injuries and illness in the agricultural working population. However, regardless of your background—the grant writing tips may be informative. All are invited to attend!
If you have questions regarding the webinar format (Zoom), the pilot project programs, or the content, please email Dr. Gibbs at jenna-gibbs@uiowa.edu.
by cph-manager | May 15, 2018
This list contains GPCAH posters presented at academic conferences and meetings from the past 8 years, in reverse chronological order. These posters may have been funded by the Center or authored by project leaders, staff, or students.
2018
Kelci R. Knight, Matthew Nonnenmann, Corey Boles, Kate O’Brien, M Farnell, T Tabler, T. Renée Anthony, Sarah Ischer, and Ralph Altmaier. Bioaerosols in Agriculture: Quantifying Total Airborne Bacteria Concentrations Using Molecular Biology Tools. AIHce. Poster
Jessica L. Ricchio, T. Renée Anthony, and Jenna L. Gibbs. Pesticide Drift in the Midwest: 2010-2016. AIHce. Poster
Heiberger S, Duysen E, Leonard S, Ploeckelman M, Yoder: [2018] Telling the Story Project. International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Annual Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Jun 25-28, 2018. Poster
2017
Devito C, Gibbs JL, Anthony TR. Evaluating Personal Attenuation Ratings of Midwest Agricultural and Industrial Workers. AIHce. Poster
Knight KR, Anthony TR, Peters TM, Altmaier R, Gibbs JL, Ramirez A, Nonnenmann MW. Air Quality in Livestock Production Buildings: Developing a Sampling Strategy for Measuring Concentrations of CO2 and Dust in a Commerical Swine Farrowing Building. AIHce. Poster
Ricchio JL, Anthony TR, Gibbs JL. Pesticide Drift in the Midwest: Database Development for Tracking Events and Contributing Factors. AIHce. Poster
2016
Beswick JM, Peters TM, Anthony TR. Method to Assess Low-Cost H2S Monitors for Use in Agriculture. AIHce. Poster
2015
Yang AY, Park JH, Gassman R, Altmaier R, Jones S, Peters TM, Anthony TR. Combustion Gas Reduction in a Farrowing Barn. AIHce. Poster
2014
Sawvel RA, Park JH, Altmaier R, Peters TM, Anthony TR. Evaluation of a Shaker Dust Collector for Use in a Swine Farrowing Barn. AIHce. Poster
Yang, AY, Park JH, Gassman R, Altmaier R, Sawvel R, Anthony TR. Wintertime Indoor Air Quality Monitoring in a Swine Farrowing Barn. AIHce. Poster
2013
Gallagher M, Nonnenmann M, Hornick M, Reynolds S, Levin J, Boggaram V. Evaluation of Pulmonary Function Cross-Shift Changes in Dairy Parlor Workers Using Spirometry and Exhaled Nitric Oxide. AIHce. Poster
Hornick MK, Nonnenmann MW, Peters TM. Evaluating Exposure to Inhalable Dust among Dairy Parlor Workers. AIHce. Poster
2012
Reeve KA, Anthony TR. Wintertime Factors Affecting Contaminant Concentration in Farrowing Barns. AIHce. Poster
2011
Anderson KR, Anthony TR. Computational Fluid Dynamics Study Investigating the Effect of Ventilation Rate and Exhaust Geometry on Airflow Patterns and Particle Dispersion in a Swine Barn. Governor’s Safety Conference. Poster
by cph-manager | Mar 31, 2017
In March, 2017, we provided posters and information to Ag Educators throughout the Great Plains region to assist with educating agriculture students about health and safety risks and prevention. This page provides additional details for each poster, including recent publications that provide additional information on each poster and ideas on how to incorporate these posters into existing curriculum.
If you click on the poster images below, you will open up the full-scale poster pdf, suitable for printing on 11×17 inch paper.
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How Farmers Get Hurt
As you know, there are many ways to get hurt on the farm. While you probably have stories about friends and family who have been injured, we have been looking across the Great Plains region to identify the big picture of farmer injuries.
Data from emergency room records and farmer fatality cases have been used to understand risk factors: How do farmers get hurt?
This poster illustrates key injuries to farmers, using recent fatality data.
A Review of How Midwestern Farmers Get Hurt on the Job
How to Use in Class
- To remind students of injury risks Incorporate into discussions focused on driving safety, material handling, machinery and livestock production
Additional Resources
Tractor-Related Injuries
More Midwest farmers are injured on tractors than by any other hazard on the farm. Tractor rollovers cause 33% of all farmer fatalities, highlighting the importance of using rollover protection. However, we recommend understanding that many other types of non-fatal injuries occur when working on and around tractors.
Data from emergency room records were used to identify leading sources and events associated with how farmers are hurt on tractors. This poster provides information on how Midwest farmers and their families have been hurt when working on and near tractors.
Tractor-Related Injuries
How to Use in Class
- Review when discussing tractor operation and safety
- Incorporate into machine maintenance discussions
Additional Resources
Tractor Safety: How to Prevent Injuries
To protect farmers, discussions on how to prevent injuries on tractors is needed. The top five types of injuries identified as significant when evaluating databases of fatal and non-fatal injuries are identified. Specific recommendations to prevent falls, collisions, and entanglement in machines are identified. Specific recommendations to both prevent rollovers and to reduce the injuries if a rollover occurs are included.
Injury Prevention Tips for Safe Tractor Operation
How to Use in Class
- Review when discussing tractor operation and safety
- Incorporate into machine maintenance discussions
Additional Resources
Traffic Safety
Crashes between farm and public vehicles on roadways pose a serious danger to farmers. This poster is intended to serve as reminders for those driving tractors on roadways but is also useful to have a conversation with other drivers during planting and harvesting seasons.
Roadway Safety Tips
How to Use in Class
- Review when discussing tractor operation and safety
- Review prior to planning and harvesting seasons
Additional Resources
Whole Body Vibration
Farmers report musculoskeletal pain, even more so than other industries. Farmers report pain in the back, shoulder, arm, hand, and legs throughout their working years. A significant risk factor to back pain is exposure to whole body vibration (WBV). This poster identifies what WBV is, known health effects, and prevention recommendations. Exposures to WBV can exceed 8-hour recommended limits in as short as 2 hours, depending on the type and age of vehicle being driven. Vibration is lower when pulling a combine, which is heavy and reduces vibration. Farmers operating small vehicles (skid steer loaders) and older vehicles have increased risk of developing back pain. We have also identified that while new tractors have improved vibration control seats, running these at faster speeds may result in the same vibration exposures as running older tractors at slower speeds. How you operate your equipment affects your risk of exposure to WBV and your risk of developing back pain.
What Whole Body Vibration Is and How It Affects Your Health
How to Use in Class
- Discuss how maintaining equipment helps not only good farming but can lead to improved health
- In driving instruction classes, talk about the trade-off of speed and whole body vibration
Additional Resources
Gas Hazards in Agriculture
Hazardous gases are generated as a byproduct of many farming operations. This poster identifies the gas hazards common throughout the region and identifies how these gases are formed. Manure gases have killed livestock producers. Carbon monoxide has killed farmers in grain bins. This poster identifies the hazard and health effects to farmers. This helps interpret ASABE standards on grain bin safety and manure management.
Health Effects and Sources of Important Gas Hazards in Agriculture
How to Use in Class
- In livestock and grain handling courses, discuss these risks as part of the safety discussion.
- Incorporate into any confined space hazard discussions.
- When discussing gas monitoring recommendations by ASABE, use this poster to reinforce what hazards are and were hazards are formed.
Additional Resources
Skin Cancer and You
Farmers work outdoors and, by default, are at risk of developing skin cancer from ultraviolet light. Understanding the risk the risk is important to motivate farmers to take simple precautionary actions.
Skin Cancer Recognition and Prevention
How to Use in Class
- Incorporate into discussions on risk management, health care, personal protective equipment.
- Show how to recognize what type of skin changes warrant going to the doctor.
Additional Resources
Hearing Damage: What Do You Have to Lose?
Farm workers suffer from impaired communication, reduced self-esteem, and disrupted intimacy, a result of noise-induced hearing loss. Most also experience tinnitus, a constant ringing or buzzing in the ears. Farm workers are exposed to excessive noise from: tractors, dryers, silage blowers, mowers, livestock, and chain saws, to name a few. Exact numbers are hard to pin down, but studies in 2000 estimate that 72% of farmers have hearing loss. Since hearing loss gradually develops over a working lifetime, early prevention will have great payoffs later in life. This poster explains how future hearing loss may affect common activities. The right side uses disappearing words to visually illustrate how changing of hearing loss affects the ability to communicate as the disease progresses.
Effects of Hearing Loss: What Do You Have to Lose?
How to Use in Class
- When discussing personal protection, risk prevention and management
- Incorporate early in programs when demonstrating loud equipment
- Discuss before internships begin
Additional Resources
Hearing Damage: How Loud is Too Loud?
Once the risk of hearing loss is understood, people need to understand when to protect their hearing. When exposed to noise louder than 90 dB, hearing protection is needed. This poster identifies typical sound levels of a variety of equipment and indicates the “Safe Time” that you can be in that noise for a given day. Note that this presumes no noise exposures the rest of the workday. Since this is not likely to happen, protection can help reduce personal exposures to noise. This includes easily available hearing muffs and earplugs.
Interpreting Sound Levels and How Long You Are Safe Without Hearing Protection
How to Use in Class
- When discussing personal protection, risk prevention and management
- Incorporate early in programs when demonstrating loud equipment
- Discuss before internships begin
Additional Resources
by cph-manager | Mar 6, 2017
Ag Safety and Health Posters Since 2017, GPCAH has provided free posters and information to Ag Educators throughout the Midwest to assist with educating ag students about health and safety risks and prevention. Click on the titles below to obtain details and...
