Agricultural Safety and Health: The Core Course

Monday, June 14, 2021, 10:00 AM - Friday, June 18, 2021, 3:15 PM, Online, Iowa City, IA

For information about the course, including how to register, please visit the Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health course website:

https://gpcah.public-health.uiowa.edu/education/agricultural-safety-and-health-the-core-course/

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (37.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (37.25 hours), Iowa Board of Nursing, Provider #1 (37.25 hours)

1. Describe the incidence and impact of injury and illness among agricultural workers.
2. Apply the industrial hygiene paradigm (anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and control) to occupational hazards among agricultural workers.
3. Identify the hazards associated with agricultural transportation activities, with emphasis on tractors, ATVs/UTVs, and public roadway use.
4. Understand current issues in production agriculture that impact health and safety.
5. Recognize lung and skin illnesses that occur as a result of agricultural activities and apply strategies for their prevention.
6. Identify hazards to youth living and working on farms and apply methods of prevention.
7. Recognize routes of disease transmission and methods to prevent infection.
8. Identify hazards associated with livestock production and recommend prevention strategies.
9. Describe agricultural work factors associated with psychosocial stress and how they impact health, safety, and well-being.
10. Describe exposures to physical agents and their associated health effects experienced by agricultural workers.
11. Identify emergency rescue methods appropriate to agricultural hazards and events.
12. Explain what role healthcare providers can have in reducing injuries and illness in agricultural populations.
13. Recognize risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders among agricultural workers as a result of agricultural activities, and apply strategies for their prevention.
14. Recognize pesticide exposure scenarios and recommend methods to control exposure.
15. Observe farm activities and identify potential risk factors for injury and illness, including characteristics of agricultural workers that may affect prevention efforts.
16. Identify medications which may increase risk of injury to farmers or those in agriculture.
17. Identify the appropriate use and selection of personal protective equipment for protection from agricultural hazards.
18. Discuss current research efforts to promote safety and health in agricultural and rural communities.
19. Summarize available evidence linking agricultural work and cancer outcomes.
20. Describe techniques providers can incorporate into their practice to address the unique healthcare needs of rural communities.

CME Accreditation
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine and the University of Iowa College of Public Health. The Carver College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CME Credit Designation
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine designates this other activity (live and asynchronous) for a maximum of 37.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Policy
Everyone in a position to control the content of this educational activity will disclose to the CME provider and to attendees all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest.

Nurses
The University of Iowa College of Nursing is an Iowa Board of Nursing provider #1. With full-time attendance, 37.25 contact hours will be awarded.

CME Credit and Nursing CE Credit Certificates will be available to all who complete a post-conference evaluation. Instructions will be provided at check-in. Certificates will not be mailed.