Removing the HOOA Family Farm Exemption: Impact on Inju*

产品说明：（申请人提供）：该提案涉及RF A中列出的第一个优先事项：开发和评估新的或现有的强化控制技术，并特别侧重于公共政策形式的行政控制。 尽管国家加大了努力，但儿童农业死亡、受伤和残疾问题依然存在。农业安全专业人员和儿童安全倡导者开始考虑公共政策办法。在美国，政策考虑之一是从农业危险职业令（HOOA）中取消家庭农场豁免。在投入资源启动这种政策变革之前，评估其对预防儿童农业伤害的潜在影响将是有益的。 这项拟议研究的目的，“取消HOOA家庭农场豁免：对伤害的影响”，是系统地将HOOA应用于农场儿童所经历的致命和非致命伤害的案例描述，以确定HOOA（如果实施和执行）是否可能防止这些伤害的发生。这项拟议的研究将建立在我们以前的NIOSH补助金，其中我们收集了一个大型的病例系列（约1000例）的创伤性儿童农场死亡和受伤，使用现有的监测数据，验尸官/法医记录，病例调查报告和全国调查数据。通过对少数民族农民的调查，将增加更多的伤害案件，从而加强这一系列案件。使用“真实的生活”的儿童农场伤害案件将提供一些证据，在何种程度上取消HOOA家庭m豁免可能会减少这些伤害的发生。它还将突出年龄，工作和情况，将不包括取消豁免。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant): This proposal addresses the first priority listed in the RF A: Develop and evaluate new or existing enhanced control technologies and is specifically focused on administrative controls in the form of public policy. Despite increased national efforts, the problem of childhood agricultural fatalities, injuries, and disability persists. Agricultural safety professionals and child safety advocates are beginning to consider public policy approaches. In the United States, one of the policy considerations is removing the family farm exemption from the Hazardous Occupations Order for Agriculture (HOOA). Before investing resources to initiate such a policy change, it would be helpful to assess its potential impact on the prevention of childhood agricultural injuries. The purpose of this proposed study, "Removing the HOOA Family Farm Exemption: Impact on Injury," is to systematically apply the HOOA to case descriptions of fatal and non-fatal injuries experienced by farm children in order to determine if the HOOA (if implemented and enforced) might have prevented the occurrence of these injuries. This proposed study will build upon our previous NIOSH grant in which we assembled a large case series (approximately 1000 cases) of traumatic childhood farm fatalities and injuries using existing surveillance data, coroner/medical examiner records, case investigation reports, and national survey data. The case series will be enhanced by additional injury cases from a national minority farmer's survey. The use of "real life" childhood farm injury cases will provide some evidence of the extent to which removal of the HOOA family m exemption might have reduced the occurrence of these injuries. It will also highlight ages, jobs and situations that would not be covered by removing the exemption.