The New York Center for Agricultural Medicine & Health/Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety in Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing based in Cooperstown, NY is conducting a farm worker health needs assessment to help them better address worker health and safety needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have asked us to share this message with NJ agricultural employers asking you to share the survey links with your employees and to encourage them to fill out the survey.
Dear Farm owner/manager,
First, let us apologize for the unfortunate time of this request. We recognize that this is an extremely busy time of year for the farm community and that you have many challenges both new and old to ensure your business remains viable in the months ahead. However, as a private, nonprofit agricultural organization that has been working to provide health and safety services to agricultural workers for nearly forty years we are eager to understand the unique challenges your workers are facing in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. This information will help us create materials and programs that are more appropriate and helpful to you and your workers.
To gather this data, we are asking if you would share the following survey link with your workers:
NYCAMH/NEC Farmworker COVID Survey:
Please click here to take the survey in English – https://redcap.bassett.org/redcap/surveys/?s=NH8CHXX499
Please click here to take the survey in Spanish: https://redcap.bassett.org/redcap/surveys/?s=LND3MR9TPD
You can either email the link directly to your workers or contact us to request paper copies that you can distribute to them. You can also contact us if you would prefer to have your workers complete the survey over the phone or if they need assistance completing the survey (assistance is available in English or Spanish). [contact: Nicole Blanchard at 607.422.7527 or farmworkercovidsurvey@bassett.org]. Lastly, we would to like to reassure you that the survey is voluntary and responses are confidential (no contact information will be requested in the survey).
If you would like to learn more about our organization, please visit www.nycamh.com or www.necenter.org.
Thank you very much for considering this request and for your essential work in providing agricultural products to the nation throughout the pandemic.
Julie Sorensen
NYCAMH/NEC Director
