Stress and workplace safety.

Details

• Personal Author:
  Shutske J
• Description:
  Stress shows itself by raising heart rate, blood pressure, hormonal changes, blood (clotting, cholesterol), and muscular tension. We make mistakes, all increase with stress load. Coping with change. Eating right means: Balance, eating frequently, watching fat intake, and drinking enough fluid. Set priorities follow them. Exercise burns up stress energy, makes you more resilient, prepares you for physical work, improves health, and changes your outlook. Avoid unhealthy ways to de-stress - alcohol, drugs, tobacco. Information increases control by decreasing uncertainty. Learn about changes in the industry. Educational sources builds confidence and opens the door to other opportunities in agriculture. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Education Environmental Monitoring Farmers Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry; Agricultural-processes; Agricultural-workers; Agriculture; Education; Exposure-assessment; Exposure-levels; Farmers; Injury-prevention; Physical-exercise; Physical-stress; Risk-analysis; Safety-measures; Safety-practices; Stress; Work-analysis; Work-performance
• Publisher:
  University of Wisconsin - Madison
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Presentation
• Place as Subject:
  Minnesota ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038312
• Citation:
  Midwest Rural Energy Council (MREC) 41st Annual Rural Energy Conference &. Seminar, March 5-7, 2003, St. Paul, Minnesota. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003 Mar; :1-36
• Contact Point Address:
  John M. Shutske, Workplace Safety & Health Specialist and AgrAbility Project Director, Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota, 390 Eckles Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108-6005
• Email:
  shutske@umn.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/245874/cdc_245874_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]