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，与美国所有其他行业相比，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死亡原因，如果消除这些事故，估计职业死亡率可降低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，大大增加了纽约的改造活动。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，也是其他州成功干预措施发展的关键因素，将是农业利益相关者的财政或社会支持，以帮助农民支付安装ROPS的成本。NYCAMH的研究人员已经与纽约的许多这样的人建立了富有成效的伙伴关系，通过本提案中概述的研究，将制定战略，使其他州的研究人员也能这样做。这项拟议的研究将涉及确定拖拉机侧翻干预工作的关键利益相关者。将与这些个人进行访谈，以评估利益相关者和基于州的改造计划可以发展互利伙伴关系的方式。对这些定性数据的分析将导致建议和材料/工具的发展，这将有助于在这一领域建立有效的联盟。这样的联盟对于以州为基础的倡议是必不可少的，这些倡议旨在发起自己的成功倡议。信息和材料/工具将分发给基于州的倡议，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提高利益相关者参与减少拖拉机翻车伤亡的机构或个人。

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.