Work-related agricultural fatalities in Australia, 1982-1984.

Erlich, S.; Driscoll, Timothy; Harrison, James Edward; Frommer, Michael; Leigh, Jane

doi:10.5271/sjweh.1486

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“…This result is not consistent with several previous studies, which have found elevated injury probabilities either for the young (Geller et al, 1990;Carstensen et al, 1995;Zhao et al, 1995;MacCrawford et al, 1998;Gerberich et al, 2001) or for the old (Erlich et al, 1993;Zhao et al, 1995;Gerberich et al, 1998;Pickett et al, 2001). The lack of very young and old operators in the study sample might be at least a partial explanation.…”

Section: Discussioncontrasting

confidence: 96%

Management as a Risk Factor for Farm Injuries

Suutarinen¹

2004

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

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ABSTRACT. The (RR = 2.34, and RR = 1.75, griculture is a challenging sector for efforts to promote occupational safety and health. Farming is commonly based on family entrepreneurship. Many characteristic hazards related to the workers, work environment, and work tasks have been identified, but a recent review of farm safety interventions (DeRoo and Rautiainen, 2000) concluded that there is little evidence that farm safety educational programs are effective. The effectiveness of education has also been questioned by Murphy (1981), Geller et al. (1990, and Reis and Elkind (1997). Influencing the attitudes of the farming population is laborious, and implementing safety regulations and enforcement is culturally unacceptable. Therefore, new approaches should be sought. The organizational injury theory has become a prevailing paradigm in safety science recently. The focus has been on management issues rather than on personal characteristics or behavior (Harvey, 1984;Laflamme, 1990;Reason, 1995). However, the organizational injury theory has been developed for organizations that involve complex technology and/or employ many workers. This study aims to determine whether the organizational injury theory applies to farming as well. Literature ReviewThe literature on injury theories and related empirical findings were reviewed to form a hypothesis for this study. The hypothesis was tested with empirical data using a cross-sectional case-control design.

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Management as a Risk Factor for Farm Injuries

Suutarinen¹

2004

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

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“…Farm-related fatalities involving children In comparison, a prior study of farm-related fatal injury in Australia for the period 1982-84 found that 13% of fatalities were children aged less than 15 years and almost three-quarters of those fatally injured were bystanders to farm work. 11 However, Erlich and colleagues 11 did not include drowning deaths in their investigation, which this study identified as one of the main causes of death of children on farms. As a result, it is likely that the Erlich et al 11 figure is an under-representation of the proportion of farmrelated child deaths during 1982-84.…”

Section: Premature Deathmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The first of these studies, conducted in the late 1980s, covered the period 1982-84 inclusive. 11 The second study covered the period 1989-92. 12 The study method for the second study is described elsewhere in detail 12 and is outlined here.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Drowning (42, 58.3%) was the most common mechanism of the fatal incident for children less than five years of age. Drowning fatalities for this young age group most commonly occurred in dams (30, 71.4%), but also in tanks (5,11.9%), irrigation channels (3, 7.1%), creeks or rivers (2, 4.8%), in a swimming pool (1, 2.4%) and in a cattle dip trough (1, 2.4%). Other common mechanisms for children less than five years of age included being hit by moving objects (such as a tractor or a trailer) (18, 25.0%), being hit by falling objects (such as a tank or a tree being felled) (3, 4.2%) and vehicle accidents (involving cars or utilities) (3, 4.2%).…”

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Farm‐related fatalities involving children in Australia, 1989–92

Mitchell

Franklin

Driscoll³

et al. 2001

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

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“…In particular, one of the most critical issue for farm tractors' drivers is related to the loss of stability of agricultural machines (and, in particular, of machines operating in sloping grounds) leading to the rollover of the machine [4][5][6][7]. This condition happens when the projection of the centre of gravity (COG) on the support plane falls outside the vehicle's support polygon.…”

Section: Stability Issues and Causes Of Rollover Formentioning

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Increasing the safety of agricultural machinery operating on sloping grounds by performing static and dynamic tests of stability on a new-concept facility

Bietresato¹,

Mazzetto²

2018

Int. J. SAFE

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Using agricultural machines on slopes is very risky for operators: drivers difficultly have a correct perception of the stability condition of their vehicles when travelling, especially because it is impossible to instantly check the ground elevation and harshness in correspondence of each wheel. Moreover, the tests that are usually performed to characterize these machines' stability are scarcely helpful in real conditions: these tests check the lateral overturning (maximum angle) in two static configurations only. Evidently, these do not cover most of real situations, do not locate its centre-of-mass and do not consider the centrifugal force (causing load-transfers and dynamically-variable readjustments of the machine's trim in turnings), thus making impossible the setup of eventual active/passive safety-systems to be installed on vehicles.Therefore, with the aim of overcoming the limitations of actual tests, giving a higher level of information to the tractors' manufacturers and users, we have conceived a completely-new test-apparatus to be installed within our laboratory: the Tiltable Platform. It integrates two subsystems, illustrated hereinafter.(1) The tiltable/angleable plane is a wide flat structure (15×15 m), able to simulate different groundgradients, allowing a vehicle to manoeuvre/travel on it along circular paths in a controlled and safe environment. It can also generate an angle at half of its width, transversal to the maximum-slope direction (simulating the exits of an agricultural machine from the inter-rows). (2) The tilting turntable: has a circular shape and is divided into quadrants, each capable of measuring the weight sustained due to a motionless vehicle positioned on them; it is installed on a tilting structure and can rotate around a vertical axis, thus allowing to vary the angular position of the vehicle's longitudinal axis with reference to the maximum-slope direction.Finally, this test-rig will be useful to develop new test-methodologies to certify the agricultural machines' stability in real operating-conditions (e.g. operating with ballast/mounted-implements).

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Work-related agricultural fatalities in Australia, 1982-1984.

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Management as a Risk Factor for Farm Injuries

Management as a Risk Factor for Farm Injuries

Farm‐related fatalities involving children in Australia, 1989–92

Increasing the safety of agricultural machinery operating on sloping grounds by performing static and dynamic tests of stability on a new-concept facility

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