Children and Agriculture: Opportunities for Safety and Health

A National Action Plan

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Children continue to be victims of fatal and nonfatal unintentional injuries associated with production agriculture in the United States. The National Committee for Childhood Agricultural Injury Prevention is charged with the objective of generating specific, targeted childhood agricultural injury prevention recommendations for research, education, policy, and evaluation efforts. These recommendations will be based on epidemiological evidence of the current injury problem, the Healthy People 2000 objectives for unintentional injuries, Injury Control in the 1990's: A National Plan for Action, and other relevant developments in such fields as general childhood injury prevention, adult agricultural injury prevention, occupational safety, and traffic and transportation safety.

Committee work was initiated with financial support from the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Farm Medicine Center, and the respective agencies of committee members. A core group of 42 individuals from the public and private sector proposed initial recommendations, then solicited support and feedback from farm operators, farm workers, and farm organizations throughout the country.

Distribution of the final committee report, Children and Agriculture: Opportunities for Safety and Health is targeted for key individuals and organizations, including federal and state legislators, schools of public health, agricultural safety specialists, and child safety advocates.

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