A Scoping Review of Safety and Health Interventions in the High-Risk Dairy Industry: Gaps in Evidence Point to Future Directions in Research

Driscoll, Maryellen; Dalton, Deborah; Jenkins, Paul; Tinc, Pamela J.; Murphy, Dennis J.; Douphrate, David I.; Lundqvist, Peter; Pate, Michael; Lindahl, Cecilia; Meyerhoff, A. A.; Scott, Erika; Carrabba, James J.; Hagevoort, G. Robert; Sorensen, Julie A.

doi:10.1080/1059924x.2020.1837703

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“…These studies within our review neither tested the effect of these technologies on animal welfare nor provided any evidence of how these technologies impacted the safety and health of the farmers and/or farm workers. A similar review of the literature for the dairy sector found a similar gap, with only 16 studies out of 343 (5%) assessing the impact of interventions for workers’ safety and health, and only one of those 16 studies examined farmer’s and farm workers’ mental well-being [ 49 ].…”

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Occupational Safety and Health with Technological Developments in Livestock Farms: A Literature Review

Hayden

Barim

Weaver

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In recent decades, there have been considerable technological developments in the agriculture sector to automate manual processes for many factors, including increased production demand and in response to labor shortages/costs. We conducted a review of the literature to summarize the key advances from installing emerging technology and studies on robotics and automation to improve agricultural practices. The main objective of this review was to survey the scientific literature to identify the uses of these new technologies in agricultural practices focusing on new or reduced occupational safety risks affecting agriculture workers. We screened 3248 articles with the following criteria: (1) relevance of the title and abstract with occupational safety and health; (2) agriculture technologies/applications that were available in the United States; (3) written in English; and (4) published 2015–2020. We found 624 articles on crops and harvesting and 80 articles on livestock farming related to robotics and automated systems. Within livestock farming, most (78%) articles identified were related to dairy farms, and 56% of the articles indicated these farms were using robotics routinely. However, our review revealed gaps in how the technology has been evaluated to show the benefits or potential hazards to the safety and well-being of livestock owners/operators and workers.

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Occupational Safety and Health with Technological Developments in Livestock Farms: A Literature Review

Hayden

Barim

Weaver

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…In other words, the limited effectiveness of the prevailing farm safety interventions documented in evaluation research (Gallagher 2012 ) could in part stem from inadequate understanding and incorporation of farm parents’ lived realities and how they consider their children’s safety. The limited effectiveness of prevailing interventions and insufficient progress in reducing agricultural injuries is not limited to farm children as scholars have noted similar challenges regarding farm adults (Rautiainen et al 2008 ; Coman et al 2020 ; Driscoll et al 2022 ).…”

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Navigating the Ethical and Methodological Dimensions of a Farm Safety Photovoice Project

2023

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Scholars have noted persistent high rates of agricultural health and safety incidents and the need to develop more effective interventions. Participatory research provides an avenue to broaden the prevailing research paradigms and approaches by allowing those most impacted to illuminate and work to solve those aspects of their lives. One such approach is photovoice, an emancipatory visual narrative approach. Yet, despite its broad appeal, photovoice can be hard to implement. In this article, we leverage our experience using photovoice for a farm children safety project to describe and reflect on the ethical and methodological aspects broadly relevant to agricultural health and safety topics. We first contextualize the tensions of navigating between photovoice, the research ethics committees (RECs) regulatory frameworks, and competing views on visual representations in agriculture. We then discuss the sources of risks to participants and researchers, how we addressed these risks, and how these risks unfolded during the research phase of the photovoice activity. We conclude with three lessons we (re)learned: the importance of collaborating with RECs, the need to increase preparation to limit psychological risks to participants and researchers, and avenues to augment the emancipatory power of photovoice in a virtual environment.

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Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions

Chionis

Karanikas

2022

Syst Pract Action Res

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A Scoping Review of Safety and Health Interventions in the High-Risk Dairy Industry: Gaps in Evidence Point to Future Directions in Research

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Occupational Safety and Health with Technological Developments in Livestock Farms: A Literature Review

Occupational Safety and Health with Technological Developments in Livestock Farms: A Literature Review

Navigating the Ethical and Methodological Dimensions of a Farm Safety Photovoice Project

Risk Perception and Risk Communication from a Systems Perspective: a Study on Safety Behavioural Intervention Frameworks and Functions

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