Agricultural Safety & Health Network

Goals and Areas of Focus

Goals of ASH-NET

1. Advocate for policy that improves agricultural safety and health.
   
2. Bolster national focus on community-based agricultural safety and health issues.
   
3. Disseminate lessons learned from community-based interventions that target diverse agricultural populations.
   
4. Promote information exchange and linkages among individuals, agencies, organizations and academic institutions.
   
5. Encourage further program development and research benefiting farmers, farm families and farmworkers.

Areas of Focus

1. Facilitating community-based participation in identifying and addressing rural and agricultural health and safety issues.
   
2. Develop eduational and training materials and implement programs in English and Second Languages on rural and agricultural health and safety topics for all those working in agricultural production. These include owner-operators, women, the disabled, the young and elderly, farmworkers and their families.
   
3. Utilize culturally sensitive methods that foster active participation in assessing helath service needs and training seasonal and migrant farmworkers as helath and safety trainers.
   
4. Advocate for policy change/implementation on behalf of the agricultural community.
   
5. Compile and present appropriate health and safety education to health professionals.
   
6. Provide rural and agricultural populations with assessment and management techniques for phusical and emotional disabilities.
   
7. Enhance the role of farm women and farmworker women as safety and helath advocates.

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