Health and Safety of Personnel in Agriculture

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• Personal Author:
  Purschwitz MA
• Description:
  Agriculture is one of the most hazardous industries in the world in which to work. Many agricultural workers suffer serious and fatal injuries each year, and many others suffer work-related illnesses. Farmers, farm operators, and farm contractors have invested a great deal of time and money in their operations, and have a financial as well as moral obligation to take seriously the health and safety hazards on farms and to protect the health and safety of their workers and family members. Children who live on or visit farms must also be protected. Farm hazards include tractors and other machinery, animals, confined spaces and storage structures, electricity, fires, chemicals, respiratory hazards, repetitive motions, noise and others. Developing and implementing a safety program, including searching out and eliminating or minimizing hazards on a farm, is the most important thing that can be done. Proper training of all who work on the farm or with various types of equipment, including family members, is necessary. Being a good neighbor means protecting the health and safety of the general public and neighbors to the farm. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Agriculture Chemistry Confined Spaces Electric Injuries Electricity Farmers Irritants Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Respiratory Hypersensitivity Respiratory System Safety Safety Management Staff Development

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• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Chemical-composition Children Confined-spaces Electrical-hazards Hazards Health-standards Injuries Injury-prevention Prophylaxis Protective-equipment Respiration Respiratory-hypersensitivity Respiratory-irritants Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Storage-facilities Tractors Training Worker-health Workers

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• Publisher:
  EOLSS Encyclopedia of life support systems
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032032
• Citation:
  Agricultural Mechanization & Automation, Encyclopedia of Life Support (ELOSS). McNulty P, and Grace, P, eds., Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers, 2004 Jan; :1-15
• Contact Point Address:
  M. A. Purschwitz, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. USA
• Editor(s):
  McNulty P; Grace P
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2004
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Medical Research & Education Foundation, Marshfield, Wisconsin
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19970930
• Source Full Name:
  Agricultural Mechanization & Automation, Encyclopedia of Life Support (ELOSS)
• End Date:
  20040630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:98d3ebe03d9340fded4d4ebc4a7f3df35b52b8e53f892755c3eee56069f38386c13639b3aed3cc58cab45354f1b878152a3d8a265fa0f37bd9b82d12982eb59f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186120/cdc_186120_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.03 MB ]