AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY and FISHING



The Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing Program (AgFF) provides leadership to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses among the nation’s agricultural and forestry workers and fishermen. The program engages with partners in government, industry, academia, labor, and advocacy to promote injury and illness prevention recommendations derived from NIOSH-led and NIOSH-funded research. The NIOSH-funded Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health and NIOSH Center for Maritime Safety and Health Studies conduct much of this research, as well as regional capacity-building, outreach, and research-to-practice activities. Identifying, understanding, and reducing occupational health disparities among groups of vulnerable workers in these industries is a particular focus.
- NIOSH-funded & Ag Center research on logging and forestry highlighted in special issue of Journal of Agromedicineexternal icon
- New Resources and Webinar Recording on Safety and Health During Farm Flood Clean Up Available from NIOSH Partner Agrisafeexternal icon
- February 2019 NIOSH Research Rounds Highlights Cost-Effectiveness of State Program to Install ROPS on Tractors
- Study on Full Body Vibration on Farm Machinery also Highlighted in Feb 2019 Research Rounds
- August 2018 NIOSH Research Rounds Features Massachusetts Study Showing High Rates of Opioid-Related Deaths Among AgFF Workers
- 2018 Childhood Agricultural Injuries Fact Sheet Released by National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safetypdf iconexternal icon
- Looking to the Future for Ag Injury Surveillance at NIOSH
- NIOSH releases reports from evaluation of the Second Decade of NORA
- Snapshots of NIOSH’s Ag Program and each Ag Center, including priorities and recent accomplishments, now available
- National Agricultural Safety Database (NASD)external icon
- Data and Statistics Gateway
- Health Hazard Evaluation Program
- Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
- Agricultural Safety and Health Centers
- Ag Centers Educational Videos
- Summary of Current Projects (2016-2021)pdf icon
- NIOSHTIC 2 publications search results on Agriculture
- Reporter (NIH grant system)external icon
- Aging
- Agriculture safety
- Ammonia
- Avian influenza
- Bird and bat waste removal (histoplasmosis)
- Bloodborne infectious diseases
- Carbon monoxide
- Chemical safety
- Childhood agricultural injury prevention
- Cold stress
- Confined spaces
- Commercial fishing safety
- Cost-effective Rollover Protective Structures (CROPS)
- Electrical safety
- Ergonomics
- Eye safety
- Falls from elevations
- Heat stress
- Green Tobacco Sickness
- Insects and scorpions
- Motor Vehicle Safety at Work
- MRSA
- Noise and hearing loss
- Outdoor workers
- Pesticide injury and illness surveillance
- Poisonous plants
- Protective clothing
- Respirators
- Respiratory disease surveillance
- Skin exposures and effects
- Small business
- Stress at work
- Tick Borne diseases
- Venomous snakes
- Venomous spiders
- Veterinary safety and health
- West Nile Virus
- Work schedules
- Sun exposure
- Young workers
- Zika Virus