Room for manoeuvre in time of the workforce in dairy production systems

Filho, Joel Carneiro dos Santos; Hostiou, Nathalie; Damasceno, Júlio César; Dedieu, Benoît

doi:10.1590/s1516-35982012001200010

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“…Dairy farming, in addition to family labor and the repercussions of economic crises that plague the country, has other characteristics [7]: (1) work is usually developed in inappropriate situations and this creates potential health risks for the worker. In addition, there are few equipment and technologies, which generate a lot of physical overload [8]; (2) there is no distinction between the domestic environment and the work environment.…”

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Work Organization Model Applied on Smallholder Dairy Farms in Brazil

Oliveira¹,

Moro²,

Ulbricht³

2017

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This research identified difficulties faced by dairy farmers in family farming, describing this diagnosis through ergonomic demand items (EDIs). The objective was to elaborate an organization model of work related to dairy farming (WRDF). As a methodology, a descriptive exploratory study was carried out in 14 family dairy farms that were visited and had their activities monitored. As main results, 11 EDIs were identified. The ones grouped in the infrastructure factor showed the highest resolution priority. The WRDF model was composed of three categories: management, public policies management and infrastructure, which were further subdivided into technical and social aspects. From this perspective, it is believed that the implementation of the model can bring organizational improvement, once adjustments are made in the procedures and working conditions. This study sheds light on the conditions that need to be resolved with higher priority so that the farmers will remain in the dairy business.

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Work Organization Model Applied on Smallholder Dairy Farms in Brazil

Oliveira¹,

Moro²,

Ulbricht³

2017

JAST-A

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Analyzing work organization on livestock farm by the Work Assessment Method

Cournut

Chauvat

Correa

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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All over the world, farmers have to face up to increasing uncertainties (market and climate). They have to adapt their activity to the new contexts and challenges of livestock farming (producing more and better, and satisfying the expectations of society, consumers, and of downstream operators), while at the same time responding to their own expectations in terms of income, quality of life, and working conditions. In order to understand these changes and consider the future, work organization must be taken into account. The Work Assessment Method, developed by French livestock researchers, provides a framework able to capture work organization, taking into account the specifics of the livestock activity. Based on a comparative analysis of nine case studies that used the Work Assessment Method from six contrasted countries, this review (1) gives generic ideas on work organization indicators and their variation; (2) identifies four generic patterns of work organization which are not linked to the local context but marked by the workforce composition; (3) demonstrates that the relevance of the Work Assessment Method to tackle work issues, and its capacities to be adapted to a variety of livestock farming contexts throughout the world, is linked to the properties of its framework, which was developed by combining different disciplinary approaches; (4) highlights the principal limits of the method: lack of coordination with other dimensions of work (labor productivity; sense of the job), and limited characterization of the work organization flexibility; and (5) proposes some possibilities of change to better respond to the diversity of work situations and questions about work, and take better into account the evolutions of livestock farming systems.

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