Family Farms

Details

• Personal Author:
  Baker DE ; Salg, Joyce A. ; Scharf T
• Description:
  The family farm is an enterprise and a homestead on which both children and the elderly are likely to be present. In some parts of the world, farm families live in villages surrounded by their farm land. The family farm combines family relationships and child raising with the production of food and other raw materials. Family farms range from small, subsistence or part-time operations worked with draught animals and hand tools to very large, family-heald corporations with numerous full-time employees. Types of family farms are distinguished by natural, regional, cultural, historical, economic, religious and several other factors. The size and type of operations determine the demand for labour from family members and the need for hired full or part-time workers. A typical farm operation may combine the tasks of livestock handling, manure disposal, grain storage, heavy equipment operation, pesticide application, machinery maintenance, construction and many other jobs. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Family Farmers Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-machinery Agricultural-workers Children Families Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Occupational-health-programs Occupational-safety-programs Work-environment Workers

  More +
• ISBN:
  9789221092032
• Publisher:
  International Labour Organization
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027877
• Citation:
  Encyclopaedia of occupational health and safety: chemicals, fourth edition. JM Stellman ed. Geneva, Switzerland: International Labour Organization, 1998 Nov; 3:64.4
• Editor(s):
  Stellman JM
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Encyclopaedia of occupational health and safety: chemicals, fourth edition
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:66f3337d625bc5ad38c6957ea32ed842f81e71af9e7b9a9ec0bc9ee4d7d6341264584668e6292cae3b911599898db1c7a0165a4e14b890609ca385e3108ccd08
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197696/cdc_197696_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 449.92 KB ]