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Tractor spraying soybean, person with chainsaw, person with fishBackground
The Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health represent a major NIOSH effort to protect the health and safety of workers in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing (AgFF) sector. AgFF workers experience the highest fatal injury rate at 23.4 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers, compared to a rate of 3.5 deaths per 100,000 workers for all U.S. industries.1
The NIOSH Agricultural Centers were established as part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / NIOSH Agricultural Health and Safety Initiative in 1990. The Centers were developed by a cooperative agreement to conduct research, education, and prevention projects to address the nation’s pressing agricultural, forestry and fishing health and safety problems. Geographically, the Centers are distributed throughout the nation to be responsive to the health and safety issues in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AgFF) Sector unique to the different regions, but collaborate on national events and projects such as a the Centers’ YouTube channel. The Centers also work in collaboration with NIOSH project areas, such as commercial fishing safety, agricultural safety, Cost-effective Rollover Protective Structures (CROPS),  and pesticide illness & injury surveillance. The National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety specifically addresses the needs of children and families who live and work on farms across the country.
Purpose
Develop and conduct research related to the prevention of occupational disease and injury in the AgFF sector.
Develop and implement model educational outreach, and intervention programs promoting AgFF health and safety.
Develop and evaluate control technologies to prevent illness and injuries among AgFF workers.
Develop and implement model programs for the prevention of illness and injury among AgFF workers.
Evaluate AgFF injury and disease prevention and educational materials and programs implemented by the Centers.
Provide consultation and/or training to researchers, health and safety professionals, graduate/professional students, and agricultural extension agents and others in a position to improve the health and safety of AgFF workers.
Develop linkages and communication with other governmental and non-governmental bodies involved in AgFF health and safety with special emphasis on communications with other CDC/NIOSH sponsored programs related to agriculture, forestry and fishing.**References**
1BLS [2019]. Number and rate of fatal work injuries by industry sector, 2018. In: Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, 2019. Washington, DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.bls.gov/charts/census-of-fatal-occupational-injuries/number-and-rate-of-fatal-work-injuries-by-industry.htmMap of the USA with the dots representing the locations of the Centers of Agricultural Safety and Health across twelve states.Center DescriptionsNortheast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (Bassett Healthcare Network)
	The Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety (NEC) is a NIOSH funded extramural Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF) Research Center, located in Cooperstown, NY. While the NEC is affiliated with the Bassett Healthcare Network, it works extensively with researchers, extension specialists, industry groups and workers throughout the Northeast region to fulfill its mission to prioritize and ameliorate AFF worker health and safety issues in the Northeast. The Center conducts research and provides occupational health and safety (OSH) services to AFF workers in a twelve-state region that extends from Maine to West Virginia.High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (Colorado State University)
	The High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety at Colorado State University uses an innovative transdisciplinary approach that leverages expertise and resources among partners to promote a healthy agricultural and forestry/logging population in PHS Region VIII and beyond. The Center brings together an internationally recognized leadership team, outstanding new investigators, and a well-developed regional partnership to address the new and unique needs of this region. Building on the Regional Needs Assessment, the Center continues to advance health and safety in dairy production, but also more broadly addresses the emerging needs (e.g., forestry safety, all-terrain vehicle safety on ranches, vulnerable workers) of this region with cross-cutting, innovative research, intervention, and outreach translation. The Center’s mission is to be a dynamic catalyst for transdisciplinary research, training, and outreach that reduces the burden of human morbidity and mortality in agriculture and forestry in the high plains intermountain region and beyond. Their overall goal integrates new and existing knowledge and utilizes multiple routes of dissemination to move from research to improved agricultural health and safety practice.National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety (National Farm Medicine Center)
	NCCRAHS strives to enhance the health and safety of all children exposed to hazards associated with agricultural work and rural environments. The major focus is to translate research findings into practice and to move childhood agricultural safety knowledge into practice through sustained partnerships. The Center conducts research, education, intervention, prevention, translation and outreach activities to enhance the health and safety of children exposed to hazards associated with agricultural work and rural environments. The Center provides a wide range of services related to children and adolescents living in rural areas and working in agricultural environments. NCCRAHS has a track record of synergistic efforts addressing national priorities while involving a range of stake-holders. Since 1997, NCCRAHS has been a leader in: (a) building new partnerships, (b) conducting research with practical implications, (c) generating consensus on complex issues, and (d) producing resources deemed useful to multiple audiences.Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (University of California, Davis)
	The Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety is located at the University of California, Davis. Western agriculture is the most intensive and productive in the world, but differs in many ways from the rest of the country. The overall goal of the Center is to improve the health and safety of farmers, farm family members, and hired farm workers and their families in western agriculture. The multidisciplinary expertise of the Center faculty enables varied, largely field-oriented research projects, outreach and interventions. A major effort of this renewal is the expanded Outreach program, which will enable the Center to provide leadership in innovative efforts to improve health of immigrant farmworkers. The Center will also continue to disseminate research findings and news about its activities through traditional and new forms of media.Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (University of Florida)
	The new Southeastern Coastal Center for Agricultural Health and Safety will address unique occupational safety and health challenges for persons working in agriculture, fishing, and forestry in the southern and coastal states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and North and South Carolina. The Center plans to accomplish this through an interdisciplinary network of projects carried out by five major universities in the Southeastern United States: University of Florida, University of South Florida, Florida State University, Florida A&M University, and Emory University. The Center’s proposed research projects include activities ranging from basic or etiologic work to intervention and translation activities as well as surveillance. Focus areas or themes for the Center include heat stress, pesticide exposure, coastal fishery worker safety and health and developing innovative approaches to foster research to practice activities.Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health (University of Iowa)
	The Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health is a nationally recognized public health resource that develops and implements programs of research, intervention, translation, education, and outreach with the long-term goal of preventing occupational injury and illness among agricultural workers and their families. The Center serves a nine-state region: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. These states constitute America’s most agriculturally intensive region and have a significant burden of severe agricultural injuries and illnesses compared to other regions and industries. The Center’s research projects are aimed at reducing the burden of injury and illness throughout the region, and identifies outreach activities to build the expertise in health and safety throughout the community, for professionals, community advocates, intermediaries, and directly to farmers.Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention (University of Kentucky)
	The Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention founded in 1992 is located at the University of Kentucky (UK), a land-grant campus that houses the Colleges of Agriculture, Medicine, Nursing, Public Health and Arts and Sciences among others all on one campus. This unique situation allows the Center to  focus on multidisciplinary collaboration from agriculture, public health, epidemiology, biology, engineering, education, forestry, communications, nursing, medicine, and Cooperative Extension within UK as well as across universities in the Southeast including Auburn, East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, North Carolina A&T, West Virginia University. The Center’s theme, “Multidisciplinary partnerships to improve agricultural safety and health in the Southeast,” places emphasis on serving vulnerable farm populations while addressing persistent and emerging agricultural safety concerns unique to the 10 southeastern states of AL, FL, GA, KY, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA and WV. The Center expects to have a substantial impact on the prevention of injuries from tractor overturns, reduction of logging injuries and fatalities, the development of widespread multidisciplinary training to increase the number of professionals skilled in addressing health and safety issues faced by agricultural workers and their families and to extend its outreach and programs to address the health and safety needs of the varied fishing industry across its regions’ coastline.Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (University of Minnesota)
	The Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center at the University of Minnesota is a multidisciplinary Center formed as a collaboration of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, National Farm Medicine Center of the Marshfield Clinic, Migrant Clinicians Network, and the Minnesota Department of Health. The Center has used its unique multidisciplinary expertise to primarily focus on worker health and safety issues related to animal agriculture production. The central theme is to promote a One Health philosophy that emphasizes the connections between human health, animal, and plant health and the health of the environment for addressing the changing health and safety conditions for the people who are feeding the nation and the world. The long-term objective of the Center is to improve the health and safety of agricultural workers and their families. The objectives of the proposed center activities are to apply multidisciplinary solutions to create and translate new knowledge for addressing agricultural health and safety concerns relevant to the Upper Midwest, the country and the world.Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health (University of Nebraska Medical Center)
	The Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center aims to conduct high quality research and translate scientific discoveries into practical applications to reduce the burden of injury and illness among farmers, ranchers, their families, and workers. The Center has high scientific and technical competency, is forward looking, and has a strong network of collaborators providing regional leadership in research and outreach. During the prior project period, the Center built a cohesive approach that links planning, evaluation, research, and outreach to reduce agricultural occupational injury and illness. The proposed Outreach Core has a special emphasis on vulnerable populations: women, veteran farmers, immigrant workers, and Native Americans. Several Center projects address health and safety in feed yard and livestock production work; a major gap in previous efforts of the Ag Centers. The Center also has collaborative agreements with several other Ag centers to work on issues of mutual importance.Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education (University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler)
	The Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler serves U.S. Public Health Region 6 (Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas). Its mission is to improve the safety and health of agricultural, forestry and commercial fishing workers. This mission is accomplished through an integrated program of research, intervention, translation, surveillance and outreach activities that engage and leverage a network of strategic partners who represent the interests of a diverse worker population and a wide range of agricultural production in the region. The Center’s scope of work is organized around the theme “Building Strategic Partnerships to Improve the Health and Safety of Diverse Agricultural, Forestry and Fishing Populations.” The Center brings together an experienced leadership team of staff, Internal and External Advisors in an organizational structure that facilitates a cohesive, coordinated and synergistic operation.Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (University of Washington)
	The Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center at the University of Washington was established in 1996 and is part of a vital national infrastructure dedicated to the prevention of illness and injury among agricultural producers, workers, and their families. The center works to achieve this goal through partnerships with key stakeholders in the Northwest region (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington) and it works collaboratively with other regional centers to formulate national programs and policies in agricultural health and safety. Since the Center’s inception, it has worked to engage the three major agricultural sectors in the Northwest: farming, forestry, and fishing. The Center reflects a cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional, and geographically diverse set of initiatives whose efforts focus primarily on populations not well represented in current research, including hired laborers, migrant/seasonal workers, women, and children.Centers for Agriculture Safety and Health ProjectsProgram Performance One-Pagers (PPOP)2017-2018
	Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health [PDF – 447 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-118
Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health [PDF – 492 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-109
National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety [PDF – 394 KB]DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-111
Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety [PDF – 820 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-119
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center [PDF – 335 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-112
Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention [PDF – 400 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-114
Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center [PDF – 568 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-113
Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety [PDF – 360 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2018-1102016-2017
	Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program [PDF – 208 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-177
Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health [PDF – 167 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-115
Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health [PDF – 157 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-116
Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center [PDF – 139 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-109
National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety [PDF – 363 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-122
Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety [PDF – 122 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-117
Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention and Education [PDF – 156 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-118
Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety [PDF – 130 KB] DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2017-120Fiscal Year (FY) Extramural Research Program Highlights
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							Last Reviewed:  August 22, 2023						Source: 	National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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