A systematic review of farm safety interventions

DeRoo, Lisa A.; Rautiainen, Risto

doi:10.1016/s0749-3797(00)00141-0

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“…This finding is consistent with much of the summarized injury prevention literature on agricultural safety programs, not only those involving children. 22 …”

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A Systematic Review of Interventions to Prevent Childhood Farm Injuries

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ABSTRACT. Objective. The goal of the study was to systematically review the global body of evidence surrounding the effectiveness of interventions for the prevention of acute pediatric agricultural injuries. A specific focus was the effectiveness of the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks.Methods. Two reviewers independently screened studies and applied inclusion criteria on the basis of searches of 17 bibliographic databases (eg, Medline and Embase). We also screened reference lists of relevant studies and contacted experts in the area. Studies were included if they represented primary research, a comparison group was used, the study population included children or the intervention was directly applicable to children, and objective outcomes were reported. Two reviewers independently assessed the methodologic quality of included studies with the Downs and Black checklist. A qualitative analysis was performed because of extensive heterogeneity among studies.Results. We included 23 controlled studies, ie, 4 randomized, controlled trials, 5 controlled trials, and 14 quasiexperimental or observational studies. Only 8 of the relevant studies were published in peer-reviewed journals. School-based programs appeared to be effective at increasing short-term knowledge acquisition; outcomes were enhanced with active, hands-on participation, as opposed to passive activities. Safety day camps showed positive results for knowledge acquisition. Tractor training programs and community-and farm-based interventions showed mixed results. Studies examining the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks suggested that uptake improves if dissemination is accompanied by a farm visit from a safety specialist or if information about child development principles is provided in conjunction with the guidelines.Conclusions. There is a lack of randomized, controlled trials and community-based trials in this area. Studies primarily examined intermediate outcomes, such as knowledge acquisition; few studies evaluated changes in injury rates. The interventions targeted at children and youths that were evaluated focused on educational interventions. There is both the need and potential for the development and evaluation of injury control interventions for children, particularly programs addressing lethal injuries to young/preschool-aged children. Pediatrics 2004;114:e483-e496. URL: www.pediatrics.org/cgi/

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“…This finding is consistent with much of the summarized injury prevention literature on agricultural safety programs, not only those involving children. 22 …”

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“…It should be also considered that operators of agricultural tractors often find out the different functions of the controls in the tractor cab by a 'trials and errors' procedure (DeRoo & Rautiainen, 2000): focused training sessions adopting behavioral modeling techniques -as hands-on demonstrations and behavioral simulations (Burke et al, 2006)-could be provided when buying a new machine, with some periodical refreshes in case of new technological releases. Particular attention should be also paid to how these training activities are organised, since perceived benefits are important incentives for the use of technology (Davis, 1989;Venkatesh et al, 2003): farmers should know how they can use new technologies equipping their tractors, in order to reduce the physical workload, increase economic benefits, and save time.…”

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A method to evaluate the perceived ease of use of human-machine interface in agricultural tractors equipped with Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT)

Caffaro

Bisaglia²,

Cutini³

et al. 2018

Span. j. agric. res.

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At the end of the 20 th century the adoption of the Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT) was one of the disruptive technological advances in agricultural tractors. Several changes in the Human Machine Interface (HMI) of the tractor cab have been introduced to accommodate this technology. HMIs are known to raise issues about their ease of use; however, this topic has been under-investigated in the agricultural sector. The present study introduces a method to investigate the perceived ease of use of the HMI of agricultural tractors equipped with technological innovations. The HMI required to manage a CVT tractor was evaluated by sixteen tractor drivers (8 novices and 8 experts). During the first contact with the machine and after having performed two targeted tasks with the tractor, participants filled in a questionnaire about the ease of use of the controls and of the touch-screen display, and evaluated the general perception of ease of use, safety, quality and solidity of the machine. The trial pointed out some significant differences between novices and experts, thus confirming the validity of the proposed method. In particular, novice users showed some difficulties when interacting for the first time with the HMI of the CVT tractor working station, whereas experts did not report similar difficulties. Thus, expertise seems to play a role in determining the quality of the interaction with the HMI. Training interventions should be designed to help novices in increasing their expertise effectively, avoiding effort and errors and improving user's comfort and system performance.Additional keywords: tractor cab; ergonomics; expert; novice; questionnaire; user trial.

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“…The farming industry has a poor injury record which has not changed for many years despite many interventions (14,15). This impact evaluation was wrapped around the existing national intervention.…”

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