Falls from Tractors in Older Age: Risky Behaviors in a Group of Swedish and Italian Farmers Over 65

Caffaro, Federica; Lundqvist, Peter; Cremasco, Margherita Micheletti; Göransson, Eva; Pinzke, Stefan; Nilsson, Kerstin; Cavallo, Eugenio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-96065-4_11

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“…Over the years, numerous interventions attempting to inform about and reduce occupational safety risk have taken place on farms, but with marginal effectiveness [5,6,7,8]. In general, farmers are aware of the most common work safety risks [1,9,10,11], yet still struggle to translate this awareness into behaviours that remove or mitigate them. One explanation for this risk awareness -the risk prevention behaviour gap, may be a lack of farmers' motivation.…”

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Work safety interventions and threat complexity – A formative investigation into why farmers do not act safely

Svennefelt¹,

Hunter²,

Pálsdóttir³

2019

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Introduction. Fear appeals are a common tactic used in work safety interventions to motivate farmers to adopt safer behaviours. They begin by introducing a threat, followed by information on how to remove the threat. However, fear appeals tend to be ineffective when developed without a firm grasp of the cognitive processes underlying behavioural change. Although previous research on farm safety interventions have investigated fear appeals, they have focused on very narrow threats and behaviours, such as tractor or cow safety, while others have studied the threats but not the cognitive processing. Consequently, not enough is known about the range of threats that evoke fear, how farmers behave when under threat, or their general cognitive beliefs regarding self-efficacy, response cost and response efficacy. In In this study, 23 Swedish Farmers were interviewed and participated in a work safety intervention to identify the range of threats farmers perceive, and actions taken to remove those threats. Materials and method. The extended parallel processing model was used to gain insights into how farmers cognitively processed threats and their subsequent behaviour. Interestingly, it was found that farmers were more fearful of work safety threats related to family members and employees-yet the actions they took to reduce threats were mostly personal in nature. To help explain this finding, a typology of threat complexity was developed by the authors. Results. It was found that simple, common, and direct threats to safety tended to lead to adaptive, threat-reducing behaviours, whereas complex, general, or indirect threats promoted more maladaptive behaviours that reduced fear, but not the threats.

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Work safety interventions and threat complexity – A formative investigation into why farmers do not act safely

Svennefelt¹,

Hunter²,

Pálsdóttir³

2019

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Body Orientation and Points of Contact during Laboratory-Based Machinery Egress: Investigating Adherence to Safety Guidelines

Kingston¹,

Bashiri²,

Omoniyi³

et al. 2020

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

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HighlightsMost of the experienced operators performed machine egress facing out from the cab.Egress was 2.5 s longer when facing in toward the machine, but no differences were observed in points of contact maintained when compared to egress facing out.Maintaining at least three points of contact during egress was observed for only approximately 30% of egress duration.A one-hour exposure to whole-body vibration did not change points of contact behavior nor egress duration when performing egress while facing out.Abstract. Mobile farm machinery operators are at a high risk of injury when entering (ingress) and exiting (egress) the cabs of such machinery due to slips and falls. Safety organizations and equipment manufacturers have delivered a consistent message: operators are to egress machines facing in, toward the access path, and maintain three points of contact at all times. This study used a laboratory-based model of a mid-sized agricultural tractor to determine adherence to best practices for safety and the effect of acute whole-body vibration exposure on compliance. The majority of 19 experienced operators (16 male, 3 female) performed machinery egress facing out from the cab because descending while facing in toward the machine took 2.5 s longer. Maintaining at least three points of contact during egress was observed for only approximately 30% of egress duration, but was as high as approximately 41% for participants who self-selected the facing-in orientation. Exposure to 1 h of whole-body vibration did not change points of contact behavior nor trial duration when performing egress while facing out. Overall, the model cab used in this study had safety features similar to a real-world machine, indicating that there may be opportunities in access path or cab door design to promote increased points of contact use. Future work is needed to accurately assess three-dimensional movement patterns and external forces for disease and injury risk models. Keywords: Access path, Farm machinery, Safety guidelines, Occupational injury.

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Falls from Tractors in Older Age: Risky Behaviors in a Group of Swedish and Italian Farmers Over 65

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Work safety interventions and threat complexity – A formative investigation into why farmers do not act safely

Work safety interventions and threat complexity – A formative investigation into why farmers do not act safely

Body Orientation and Points of Contact during Laboratory-Based Machinery Egress: Investigating Adherence to Safety Guidelines

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