JA:2021-32. ATV/Quad Safety Findings from Evaluation of the Gear up for Ag™ Program (2018-19)

Perspective: Emphasizing Safe Engineering Design Features of Quad Bikes in Agricultural Safety Programs

“…This program was developed to train young adults in collegiate agricultural programs on a range of agricultural health and safety topics using evidence-based information. However, as described in a previous study, we found that this outreach focus did not lead to a large shift in personal safety behaviors, such as wearing quad bike helmets more often and disallowing extra riders (Sheridan et al, 2020). In fact, we learned that many other quad bike educational intervention studies have demonstrated substantial 'safety knowledge' shifts but very little change in actual rider behavior-further demonstrating the disconnect between knowledge and action (Novak et al, 2013;Jennissen et al, 2015;AHS, 2016).…”