Emerging Technologies and the Safety and Health of Farming People

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• Personal Author:
  Myers, Melvin L.
• Description:
  Technology has contributed significantly to improving the safety and health of agricultural workers through reduced exposure to recognized risks. The best example is the development of rollover protective structure technology to guard against injury in the event of a tractor overturn. Even though these structures along with seatbelts are standard equipment on newer tractors, many fatalities still occur when unguarded older tractors overturn. These fatalities in the hundreds bear witness to our failure to guard against this known hazard on most older tractors. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Chemistry Farmers Hypersensitivity Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Chemical-composition Chemical-hypersensitivity Chemical-kinetics Chemical-reactions Chemical-structure Chemical-synthesis Exposure-levels Exposure-limits Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Overloading Safety-climate Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-personnel Safety-practices Tractors

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• ISSN:
  1074-7583
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  179-180
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034091
• Citation:
  J Agric Saf Health 2006 Aug; 12(3):179-180
• Contact Point Address:
  M. L. Myers, Associate Professor Southeast Center for Agricultural Health and Injury Prevention College of Public Health, University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40504
• Email:
  melmyers@bellsouth.net
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Performing Organization:
  University of Kentucky
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20010930
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20270929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:68afb6b45a1855e46f2af92f443147ff4a56c66d4265cf47a3bfe4a87ff5af25aaab8bd79e069ed1ea635572d5b36c92d3d14e49b7cf3440933350b5c927bb1e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189461/cdc_189461_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 51.92 KB ]