Generating Structural and Financial Support for Tractor Retrofitting Initiatives

描述(由申请人提供)：根据国家安全委员会的数据，与美国其他所有行业相比，农业部门的工伤死亡率最高。拖拉机翻倒是农业社区最常见的致死原因，估计在消除翻车后，职业性死亡率可降低25%。在过去五年中，纽约农业和职业健康中心/东北农业健康中心(NYCAMH/NEC)致力于开发一种干预模式，大大增加了纽约的翻新活动。将这种干预模式扩展到邻近和高风险州的努力已经开始。然而，纽约模式成功的一个关键因素，也是在其他州制定成功干预措施的关键因素，将是农业利益攸关方提供的财政或社会支持，以帮助农民支付安装ROPS的费用。NYCAMH的研究人员已经与纽约的许多这样的人建立了卓有成效的合作伙伴关系，根据这项提案中概述的研究，将制定战略，使来自其他州的研究人员能够做同样的事情。这项拟议的研究将涉及确定拖拉机翻车干预工作中的关键利益相关者。将与这些人进行面谈，以评估利益攸关方和以国家为基础的翻新倡议如何发展互利伙伴关系。对这些定性数据的分析将导致制定建议和材料/工具，这将有助于在这一领域建立有效的联盟。这样的联盟对于旨在发起自己的成功倡议的基于国家的倡议至关重要。信息和材料/工具将分发给以州为基础的倡议、国家职业安全与健康研究所的研究人员，以及任何其他有兴趣最大限度地让利益相关者参与减少拖拉机倾覆伤亡的机构或个人。 公共卫生相关性：根据农林渔业国家职业研究议程，防止拖拉机倾覆伤亡是当务之急。在没有保护的拖拉机上安装翻车保护结构(ROPS)是实现这一目标的唯一行之有效的方法，然而，为ROPS安装提供财政援助并争取利益攸关方对ROPS倡议的支持将是至关重要的。不幸的是，目前几乎没有研究表明如何确定重要的资源，以及如何成功地说服这些资源提供必要的财政和结构支持。该应用程序建议收集必要的信息、战略和营销材料，以帮助翻新计划获得利益相关者的重要财务、政治和社会支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): According to the National Safety Council, the Agricultural sector has the highest rate of work-related deaths when compared to all other U.S. industries. Tractor overturns are the most frequent cause of fatality in the agricultural community and with their elimination estimates indicate that the rate of occupational death could be reduced by 25%. In the past five years the New York Center for Agricultural and Occupational Health/Northeast Center for Agricultural Health (NYCAMH/NEC) has worked to develop an intervention model which has significantly increased retrofitting activity in New York. Efforts to expand this intervention model into neighboring and high-risk states have already begun. However, a key element to the success of the New York model and one which will be vital to the development of successful interventions in other states will be financial or social support from agricultural stakeholders to help farmers defray the cost of ROPS installation. Researchers at the NYCAMH have already established fruitful partnerships with many of these individuals in New York and with the research outlined in this proposal, strategies will be developed that will enable researchers from other states to do the same. This proposed research will involve identifying key stakeholders in a tractor rollover intervention effort. Interviews will be conducted with these individuals to assess ways in which both stakeholders and state-based retrofitting initiatives can develop mutually beneficial partnerships. Analysis of these qualitative data will lead to the development of recommendations and materials/tools which will help to build effective coalitions in this area. Such coalitions are essential for state- based initiatives aiming to launch their own successful initiatives. Information and materials/tools will be distributed to state-based initiatives, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health researchers, and any other institutions or individuals who are interested in maximizing stakeholder participation in efforts to reduce tractor overturn fatalities and injuries. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Preventing tractor overturn fatalities and injuries is a top priority according to the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing National Occupational Research Agenda. The installation of rollover protective structures (ROPS) on unprotected tractors is the only proven method for meeting this objective, however, providing financial assistance for ROPS installations and gathering stakeholder support for ROPS initiatives will be crucial. Unfortunately, there is currently little research suggesting how to identify important resources and how to successfully persuade these resources to offer necessary financial and structural support. This application proposes to gather the information, strategies and marketing materials necessary to help retrofitting initiatives garner vital financial, political, and social support from stakeholders.