Making occupational health and safety training relevant for farmers: Evaluation of an introductory course in occupational health and safety in Norway

Holte, Kari Anne; Follo, Gro Irene

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2018.05.020

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“…A few major programmes were identified, such as the Swedish 'Safe Farmers Common Sense' [13], and a comprehensive Norwegian approach. In Norway, the Food Branding Foundation ('Matmerk') is responsible for the Norwegian Agricultural Quality System (hereafter KSL, 2019), offering a quality system to which all registered farmers have access [14]. About 37,000 Norwegian farmers are certified in accordance with the system.…”

Section: General Situation and Legal Frameworkmentioning

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Occupational health and safety in agriculture – a brief report on organization, legislation and support in selected European countries

Jakob¹,

Santa²,

Holte³

et al. 2021

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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Section: General Situation and Legal Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Occupational health and safety in agriculture – a brief report on organization, legislation and support in selected European countries

Jakob¹,

Santa²,

Holte³

et al. 2021

Ann Agric Environ Med.

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“…Previous research has argued that work safety interventions have traditionally achieved poor results in influencing safer work environments [5,6,7,8], however, on this point, the authors found contradictory evidence. On the one hand, all farmers seemed to be aware of the most common threats in their environment, and almost all of them made at least some changes to their work safety environment (crediting the intervention that took place one year previously).…”

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confidence: 95%

“…The threats farmers perceive encompassed a wider spectrum than previous research has addressed [5,7,8,23,33,45,59]. Just by looking at the most serious/likely perceived threats (i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is well known that agricultural work is dangerous [1,2,3,4] and that the key to reducing occupational injury, illness and death, starts with identifying safety risks, and then taking measures to remove or mitigate them [5]. 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.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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“…Safety Walks are a risk management technique designed to deal with public hazards, by means of a standard checklist to enhance the safety of pedestrian areas and businesses ( Gnoni et al, 2013 ; Powell et al, 2000 ; Webb, 2009 ). Safety Walks are a well-known method to guarantee safety in many social and economic sectors, for example: in air transport, to check aircrafts before take-off ( High et al, 2005 ); in the health sector, to monitor patient wellbeing ( Ayuso-Murillo et al, 2017 ; Behm et al, 2014 ; Shaw et al, 2006 ); on construction sites, to minimize on-site risks ( Chan et al, 2010 ; Choi et al, 2011 ; Choi et al, 2012 ; Dennerlein et al, 2009 ; Langfield-Smith, 2008 ; McDonald et al, 2009 ; Oswald et al, 2018 ; Oswald and Lingard, 2019 ; Rowlinson and Jia, 2015 ; Winge et al, 2019 ; Zou et al, 2017 ); in port operations, as preventive maintenance activities ( Gerbec and Kontic, 2017 ); in industrial activities ( Tappura et al, 2017 ); in the farming sector, to control possible risks on the farm ( Holte and Follo, 2018 ); at schools, to enhance proactive safety behaviour ( Kurki et al, 2019 ); as well as other business activities ( Zwetsloot et al, 2017 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Group discussions on how to implement a participatory process in climate adaptation planning: a case study in Malaysia

Palermo

Hernández

2020

Ecological Economics

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The frequency and intensity of extreme climate events are increasing all around the world, due to climate change. Climate adaptation strategies are therefore needed, since mitigation strategies alone are not sufficient to avoid serious impacts of climate change. However, adaptation to climate change is not straightforward, as it is highly influenced by diverse and conflicting interests as well as epistemological (or scientific) uncertainties. Therefore, a minimum requirement for its success is the active participation of stakeholders and citizens in the adaptation policy cycle. This paper presents a case study on a participatory process involving civil servants from different municipalities in Malaysia, in Southeast Asia, with a view to considering the optimal level of engagement that is required for climate adaptation planning. The exercise consisted of a Focus Group session, where participants were asked to discuss the level of stakeholder and citizen participation that should be adopted within the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy initiative. Contrary to authors' expectations, the participants tended to suggest medium to high levels of participation in the planning process. During the dialogues, a walking activity through the city, aimed at identifying hotspots of climate risks and defined as “safety walks”, was one of the ideas proposed as a high-potential participatory method, spreading in the adaptation framework. Safety walks could complement climate modelling and enhance the robustness of climate risk assessments.

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Making occupational health and safety training relevant for farmers: Evaluation of an introductory course in occupational health and safety in Norway

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Occupational health and safety in agriculture – a brief report on organization, legislation and support in selected European countries

Occupational health and safety in agriculture – a brief report on organization, legislation and support in selected European countries

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

Group discussions on how to implement a participatory process in climate adaptation planning: a case study in Malaysia

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