ABSTRACT

Purpose: Moving grain into and out of storage is recognized as highly hazardous, resulting in hundreds of injuries and deaths. The Grain Handling Safety Coalition (GHSC) has been providing safety and health training to agricultural workers and farmers since 2010. As the agricultural industry evolves and changes, so do the agricultural safety and health training needs. In response, the GHSC is conducting a formal needs assessment of training end users to identify the current and projected agricultural safety and health training needs in the agricultural industry.

Methods: A needs assessment protocol was developed to identify: 1) ways to further engage and serve the following stakeholder groups; youth, industry, farmers, and extension/education; 2) geographic areas or regions to expand GHSC’s reach; and 3) opportunities to expand GHSC’s capacity for training. A survey was developed to inform the first two objectives. The survey is being pilot tested among representatives of the four stakeholder groups and will be administered in late spring. Survey sections include attitudes towards safety trainings, barriers to offering safety training, and preferred topics and modalities of training. Three focus groups will be held of different audiences with representatives whom the end users trust for information to include 1) industry (commercial & agribusiness, insurance, safety managers, etc.); 2) youth; and 3) agricultural industry.

Findings: Results are pending. The findings will discuss the needs assessment methodology, results from focus groups, and preliminary survey results.

Translation to Practice: Needs assessments are important to providing relevant and practical information and training to end users. Our findings will inform needs assessment protocol for the agricultural industry and agricultural safety and health programming. The goal is to help identify and build a network of trainers that is accessible to employers, producers, and ag safety and health professionals across the nation.

摘要

目的：将谷物运入和运出仓库被认为具有很高的危害性，导致数百人受伤和死亡。自2010年以来，谷物搬运安全联盟（GHSC）一直为农业工人和农民提供安全和健康培训。随着农业的发展和变化，农业安全和健康培训的需求也在不断增长。对此，GHSC正在对培训最终用户进行正式的需求评估，以识别农业行业当前和预计的农业安全与健康培训需求。

方法：制定了一项需求评估协议，以识别：1）进一步参与并服务于以下利益相关者群体的方法；青年，工业，农民和推广/教育；2）地理区域或区域以扩大GHSC的范围；3）扩大GHSC培训能力的机会。开展了一项调查，以了解前两个目标。这项调查正在四个利益相关者团体的代表中进行试点测试，并将于春季末进行。调查部分包括对安全培训的态度，提供安全培训的障碍以及首选的培训主题和方式。将由不同的听众组成三个焦点小组，最终用户信赖这些代表的信息，包括：1）行业（商业和农业综合企业，保险，安全经理等）；2）青年；

结果：结果待定。调查结果将讨论需求评估方法，焦点小组的结果以及初步调查结果。

转换为实践：需求评估对于为最终用户提供相关的实用信息和培训非常重要。我们的发现将为农业和农业安全与健康计划的需求评估协议提供依据。目标是帮助确定并建立培训网络，全国的雇主，生产商以及农业和食品安全专业人士均可使用。