National Farm Medicine Center, Marshfield Clinic Research Institute, Marshfield, WI; National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Safety and Health, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA.
Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (NEC), Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, New York, USA.
J Agromedicine. 2022 Jan;27(1):35-40. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2021.1956663. Epub 2021 Jul 29.
Surveillance of injuries in production agriculture is necessary to inform stakeholders about workplace hazards and risks in order to improve and advance injury prevention policies and practices for this dangerous industry. The most comprehensive fatal injury surveillance effort currently in the United States is the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), which covers occupational fatalities in all U.S. industries, including production agriculture. However, this surveillance does not include many categories of fatalities that occur during agricultural work or on production agriculture worksites. To better capture the human cost of production agriculture, the authors of this paper call for the collection of additional data with a broader scope that supplements, not replaces, the current CFOI. This paper describes challenges in surveillance, highlights key procedural gaps, and offers recommendations for advancing national surveillance of fatal traumatic injuries associated with production agriculture.
为了让利益相关者了解工作场所的危害和风险，从而改进和推进针对这一危险行业的伤害预防政策和措施，有必要对生产农业中的伤害进行监测。目前，美国最全面的致命伤害监测工作是劳工统计局（BLS）的致命职业伤害普查（CFOI），该普查涵盖了包括生产农业在内的美国所有行业的职业性死亡。然而，这种监测并不包括农业工作期间或在生产农业工作场所发生的许多类别的致命伤亡。为了更好地了解生产农业的人力成本，本文作者呼吁收集更广泛范围的补充数据，而不是替代现有的 CFOI。本文描述了监测方面的挑战，突出了关键程序上的差距，并就推进与生产农业相关的致命创伤性伤害的国家监测提出了建议。
