Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) sought public comment on the NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative, summarized in the NIOSH draft document entitled: NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative: Progress and Proposed Future Activities. NIOSH wants to ensure the program is meeting the needs of stakeholders (e.g., national youth agricultural injury prevention organizations, agricultural youth injury prevention groups, individuals, etc.) and other interested members of the public, to identify ways in which the program can be improved to increase its impact on the safety of children in agriculture, and to identify if the program is addressing the most pressing issues and areas of childhood agricultural injury prevention.

The document provides a summary of the progress, both extramural and intramural, and proposed future activities of the NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative. Extramural progress is highlighted by providing a summary of the research projects funded through Requests for Assistance (RFAs) during the first decade of the Initiative. Intramural projects are similarly identified and summarized in the draft document. Progress to-date and proposed future activities are drafted for public comment.

Materials Under Evaluation

Draft document for review entitled, “NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative: Progress and Proposed Future Activities” – 1/1/09 [PDF – 66,550 KB]

74 FR 11112; Federal Register Notice of public comment period for the NIOSH Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention Initiative; 03/16/09 [PDF – 1,757 KB]

Submissions from the Public in Order of Receipt

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Jean Public (Private person); 3/19/09 [PDF – 1,351 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Ralph Altmaier (University of Iowa); 4/15/09 [PDF – 322 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Dennis Murphy (Penn State University); 4/15/09 [PDF – 719 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from William Pickett (Queen’s University); 4/15/09 [PDF – 313 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Deborah Reed (University of Kentucky); 4/15/09 [PDF – 1,377 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Chris Hanna (Michigan Public Health Institute); 4/15/09 [PDF – 296 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Janet Goldsmith (Consultant in Safety); 4/21/09 [PDF – 330 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from LaMar Grafft (University of Iowa); 4/21/09 [PDF – 335 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Rachel Berdo (JWV Pork, Ltd); 4/22/09 [PDF – 194 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Shari Burgus (Farm Safety 4 Just Kids); 4/23/09 [PDF – 319 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Marilyn Adams (Farm Safety 4 Just Kids); 4/24/09 [PDF – 4960 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Lindsey Realmuto (George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services); 4/27/09 [PDF – 1,886 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Charles Schwab (Iowa State University); 4/28/09 [PDF – 502 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Marcy Fitz-Randolph (National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety); 4/30/09 [PDF – 895 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Joyce Shiers on behalf of Wendy Wintersteen (Iowa State); 4/30/09 [PDF – 283 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Stacey Jenkins (AgriSafe Network); 5/1/09 [PDF – 331 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Gail Auclair (Little Rivers Health Care, Inc.); 5/4/09 [PDF – 329 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Barbara Marlenga (National Farm Medicine Center); 5/4/09 [PDF – 483 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Barbara Lee (National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety); 5/5/09 [PDF – 1,237 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Eileen Fisher (The University of Iowa); 5/8/09 [PDF – 514 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Aaron Kline (The University of Iowa); 5/8/09 [PDF – 272 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Kay Mohling (I-CASH); 5/11/09 [PDF – 1990 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Charlotte Halverson (National Education Center for Agricultural Safety); 5/14/09 [PDF – 274 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Erica Streit-Kaplan (Children’s Safety Network); 4/14/09 [PDF – 664 KB]

Submission to NIOSH Docket Office from Heather Anderson (Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs); 5/15/09 [PDF – 340 KB]