Year Two
Areas of Concentration
- Self-selection of invited participants into work-groups containing content of interest.
- Farmer/Farmworker input integral to consensus activities.
- Work-group consensus sets stage for development of specific recommendations for future action.
- Interested agencies and organizations kept informed of activities.
Consensus Development Summary
Initial meeting in Baltimore: 60 participants in six work-groups.
- Identify
- Gaps and Needs,
- Suggestion to address Gaps and Needs, and
- Barriers within agricultural safety and health.
- Facilitators provided for each work-group.
- Work-group teleconferences throughout 2001.
Face-to-face meetings to finalize items, St. Louis, February 27, 2002.
The face-to-face and teleconference meetings produced 13 pages of specific participant thoughts on the three above questions related to current agricultural safety and health issues. The thoughts were organized for review under the nine arbitrary topics used for presentation at the conference.
- The majority of the Gaps and Needs are found within the Hired Workers and Human Health categories,
- The majority of Suggestion to Address the Gaps and Needs are found under the Farm Population, Hired Workers, Community Strategies, and Public Policy categories.
- The majority of the Barriers are found under the Farm Populations, Hired Workers, Community Strategies, and Public Policy categories.
