Midwest nursery grower intervention

中西部苗圃种植者干预

• 批准号: 6763692
• 负责人: LARRY J CHAPMAN
• 金额: $ 21.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2007-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6763692
• 关键词: Conifera; agriculture worker; angiosperms; clinical research; cooperative study; data collection methodology /evaluation; environmental exposure; environmental health; field study; industry; information dissemination; injury prevention; interview; method development; musculoskeletal disorder; occupational hazard; occupational health /safety; plants; questionnaires; technology /technique development; trauma; vegetables

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application will accomplish three specific aims: 1. Develop or identify existing control technologies for work performed on nursery operations engaged in bedding and garden plants and nursery crops production in the US Midwest. We will reduce hazards (and thereby injuries) by developing or identifying controls that reduce exposures to physical work hazards for musculoskeletal and traumatic injuries. The types of controls we will consider will include work practices, tools, labor aids, and administrative controls. We will seek out reports from nursery managers, commercial suppliers, university Extension, and others about emerging production practices that could improve both safety and profits. We will also collaborate with university instructors and their students in design and other engineering courses to accomplish this aim. 2. Conduct field research to evaluate the control technologies from Specific Aim #1 with the most promise to determine their impact on production and to verify that musculoskeletal risk factor reductions actually take place when the practices are adopted. We will undertake small scale, field studies to quantitatively evaluate the hazard-reducing and profit-enhancing aspects of two to four of the best production practices each year. Comparisons will be made in the field or in laboratory simulations between accomplishing work by the conventional methods and with the improved control technology. Less than a half dozen subjects in each condition for less than a half day of work are anticipated. Small scale field studies will also be undertaken on operations that have adopted practices to verify that musculoskeletal risk factor reductions actually take place. 3. Conduct and evaluate a large, region-wide intervention to promote the best control technologies from Specific Aim #2, to the 7,888 nursery operations in seven North Central states (WI, MN, MI, IA, and IL, IN, OH) that produce bedding and garden plants and nursery crops. Disseminate information about the improved work practices through the sources that growers are already known to rely on for information about new production methods (i.e. other growers, trade publication, public events, university Extension and other private and public sector resource people, the Internet, etc.). Evaluate the interventions with annual mail questionnaires to separate, population-based, rolling probability samples of the study group (n=650 nursery growers/year) and the control group (320 New Zealand nursery growers/year).

描述（由申请人提供）：该应用程序将实现三个具体目标： 1. 开发或确定美国中西部从事花坛和园林植物以及苗圃作物生产的苗圃作业的现有控制技术。我们将通过制定或确定控制措施来减少危险（从而减少伤害），以减少肌肉骨骼和创伤性伤害的体力工作危险。我们将考虑的控制类型包括工作实践、工具、劳务辅助和行政控制。 我们将寻求苗圃管理者、商业供应商、大学推广机构和其他机构的报告，了解可以提高安全性和利润的新兴生产实践。我们还将与设计和其他工程课程的大学教师及其学生合作，以实现这一目标。 2. 进行实地研究，评估特定目标#1 中最有希望确定其对生产的影响的控制技术，并验证在采用这些做法时是否确实减少了肌肉骨骼风险因素。我们将进行小规模的实地研究，每年定量评估两到四种最佳生产实践的减少危害和增加利润的方面。将在现场或实验室模拟中对传统方法和改进的控制技术完成的工作进行比较。预计每种情况下的受试者少于六名，工作时间不超过半天。 还将对已采用实践的操作进行小规模实地研究，以验证肌肉骨骼风险因素确实降低。 3. 开展并评估大规模的全区域干预措施，以将具体目标 #2 的最佳控制技术推广到中北部七个州（威斯康星州、明尼苏达州、密歇根州、爱荷华州和伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、俄亥俄州）的 7,888 个苗圃作业。生产花坛、园林植物和苗圃作物。通过种植者已知的新生产方法信息来源（即其他种植者、贸易出版物、公共活动、大学推广和其他私营和公共部门资源人员、互联网等）传播有关改进工作实践的信息.)。通过年度邮寄调查问卷对研究组（n=650 苗圃种植者/年）和对照组（320 名新西兰苗圃种植者/年）的单独、基于人群的滚动概率样本评估干预措施。