Safety and Health in On-Farm Biomass Production and Processing

Schaufler, D. H.; Yoder, Aaron M.; Murphy, Dennis J.; Schwab, Charles V.; Dehart, Abraham F.

doi:10.13031/jash.20.10639

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“…With the development of technology and automation, working conditions improve, but at the same time, the demands placed on workers increase. This is also why the number of occupational accidents in forestry and agriculture does not decrease fundamentally [11][12][13][14][15][16][17].…”

Section: Production Of Forest Biomass As a Renewable Energy Sourcementioning

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Overview of Health and Safety Risks in the Process of Production and Storage of Forest Biomass for Energy Purposes—A Review

Gejdoš,

Lieskovský

2024

Energies

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With increasing demands on the quality and quantity of produced biomass, as the main element of the knowledge-based economy, people and the issue of safety and health protection at work are coming to the fore. The aim of the work is the synthesis and overview of the results of the analysis of the health and safety risks of the production of forest biomass in various production phases, starting with its cultivation, through the harvesting production and transport process, up to the issue of its safe storage until it is used for the production of primary energy. Based on the analyzed overview of the existing risks in the production and storage of biomass, it can be concluded that the largest number of works is dedicated to the technological process of storage and consumption of the produced forms of biomass. Of the risks in this phase, the largest number of works is devoted to the risks of the production of spores of phytopathogens and fungi threatening human health. Further research should be primarily oriented toward creating models and modeling the processes of the emergence of these risk factors and the dynamics of their growth.

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Section: Production Of Forest Biomass As a Renewable Energy Sourcementioning

confidence: 99%

Overview of Health and Safety Risks in the Process of Production and Storage of Forest Biomass for Energy Purposes—A Review

Gejdoš,

Lieskovský

2024

Energies

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Analyzing and developing criteria for assessing occupational traumatism risks basing on Best Practice Code

Levashov¹

2017

Health Risk Analysis

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A system of managing occupational risks is now being implemented in the Russian Federation; it implies developing mechanisms of their assessment. The article presents an assessment procedure for assessing occupational traumatism risks as a part of methodology for complex occupational risks assessment. Occupational traumatism risk assessment is based on such criteria as predicted traumatism frequency caused by priority risk factors for examined groups (discrete criteria of traumatism risks) and frequency diagram depending on consequences of injuries caused by priority risk factors. They are integral criteria of traumatism risks (known as F-N curves). «Best practice code» means traumatism risks levels which exist now in countries with high occupational safety. Our research objects were cases and circumstances of traumatism occurring among such an occupational group as «drivers and operators of mobile equipment». We detected that increased risks levels occurred due to a limited number of factors from each group of variables and it, in general, corresponded to Pareto principle. We obtained a dependence of y = c×e-bх type (F-N curve analogue), which described correlation between relative frequency of injuries and gravity of damage caused by them as a median of temporary disability of workers from the examined occupational group (R² > 0,9). The obtained equations for approximating curve can be criterial in assessing injuring circumstances significance and risk levels for workers from relevant occupational groups in industry and agriculture in the Russian Federation. Assessment results and assessing priority risks and factors causing them give a possibility to make decisions related to developing strategies, programs, techniques, and activities aimed at raising workers' safety in the examined occupational group.

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A risk assessment model to measure the difference in worker injury risk between corn and biofuel switchgrass production systems

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Safety and Health in On-Farm Biomass Production and Processing

Cited by 3 publications

References 19 publications

Overview of Health and Safety Risks in the Process of Production and Storage of Forest Biomass for Energy Purposes—A Review

Overview of Health and Safety Risks in the Process of Production and Storage of Forest Biomass for Energy Purposes—A Review

Analyzing and developing criteria for assessing occupational traumatism risks basing on Best Practice Code

A risk assessment model to measure the difference in worker injury risk between corn and biofuel switchgrass production systems

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