Health and Safety Communication in the Workplace: A Case Study of California Farmers

This case study presents selected findings related to communication for agricultural health and safety of a convenience sample of California farmers. The overall purpose of the study was to document, analyze, and assess how agricultural operators conduct safety programs, seek and use safety-related information, and how they organize their operations to ensure a safe workplace. The study was carried out in the Fall, 1996, with the 662 safety award winners which comprise 5% of the 13,000 insured farmers throughout California. Responses from 137 respondents (20% response rate) indicate that while operators use a variety of information sources, they question the sources’ effectiveness and utility. A number of directions to follow in developing effective communication and education approaches that can impact the health and safety practices of California farmers are indicated. Results also indicate that new challenges for extension communicators and educators in the area of agricultural health and safety exist

Invisible Divide: Farm Workers and Telephone Accessibility

Telephones are almost universally available throughout the United States. However, farm workers and their families lack ready access to this technology. A small sample of California farm workers, vendors of telephone technology, and farm camp managers were interviewed to help understand farm worker access to and use of telephones. Results revealed a pattern of low access to and availability of telephones and major problems in the use of pre-paid phone cards. The authors argue that such communities are largely forgotten and seemingly invisible in discussions of the digital divide. Similar situations likely exist in most farm worker communities throughout the country

Survey of University of California Academics\u27 Attitudes Regarding the Impact of Escaped Horticultural Introductions on Wildlands

In order to investigate whether there were differences in attitudes and perceptions within the University of California regarding the impact of introduced ornamental plants, we conducted a survey of academics with assignments in natural resource programs or ornamental horticulture. In general, the ornamental horticulture academics did not view the problem of invasive species as severely as the natural resource academics, but the both groups recognize that non-native landscape ornamentals now occur and can affect California\u27s wildlands. These data can be used to provide training to academics on this issue and help facilitate discussion between the different groups

Number 3 Fall 2004 53 (The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension

Abstract This paper compares what we teach and what we publish in the field of agricultural and extension education as one step in the proces

The Molecular Identification of Organic Compounds in the Atmosphere: State of the Art and Challenges

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