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Predictors of rural driver self-reported passing behaviors when interacting with farm equipment on the roadway

open access: yesTransportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023
Background: Crashes involving farm equipment (FE) are a major safety concern for farmers as well as all other users of the public road system in both rural and urban areas. These crashes often involve passenger vehicle drivers striking the farm equipment
Amir Ghanbari   +7 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Which Technologies Make Australian Farm Machinery Safer? A Decision Support Tool for Agricultural Safety Effectiveness

open access: yesSafety
This project combined systems engineers, farm safety researchers, work health and safety inspectorate and policymakers with the aim of designing a way in which to reduce fatal farm injury caused by run-overs and roll-overs by tractors and side-by-side ...
Amity Latham   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources

An overview of work productivity evaluation of farm tractors in timber skidding operations [PDF]

open access: yesSilva Balcanica, 2022
Farm tractors have been applied in forest operations to carry out several tasks such as tree/felling/process-ing, forwarding, loading, skidding and cable yarding. Farm tractors can be equipped with special logging equipment that allows for their safe and
Mohammad Reza Ghaffariyan
doaj   +3 more sources

Self-reported assessment of compliance with pesticide rules

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
How pesticides are used is very important in determining the risk they pose to both the user, and the environment. Given they can have toxic properties, if pesticides are misused they could cause serious harm to the users health as well as a range of ...
Edward A. Straw   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Some differences but all at risk: Improving farm safety for young people—An Australian experience

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
A significant portion of on-farm deaths and injuries in Australia occur among young people working on the farm. Since most Australian farms are still family owned and operated, young people are an integral part of everyday operations and the farm is a ...
Susan Brumby   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wisconsin dairy farm worker perceptions and practices related to antibiotic use, resistance, and infection prevention using a systems engineering framework.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
We studied farmworker practices and beliefs potentially contributing to transmission of bacteria and their associated antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) among animals and farm workers to identify potential behavioral interventions to reduce the risk of ...
Ashley E Kates   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Traversing Community Attitudes and Interaction Experiences with Large Agricultural Vehicles on Rural Roads

open access: yesSafety, 2021
Agriculture is one of Australia’s largest rural industries. Oversized and slow moving industry equipment and vehicles, hereafter referred to as large agricultural vehicles (LAVs), use public roads.
Jemma C. King   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Research and Realization of Wind Farm Inertia Response and Primary Frequency Regulation Scheme

open access: yesKongzhi Yu Xinxi Jishu, 2022
With the substantial increase of the installed capacity of wind power, it has brought great challenges to grid stability and safety. In order to improve the grid stability and the anti-interference ability of grid frequency, wind farms urgently need to ...
GUO Yanyifu   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Controlling Salmonella: strategies for feed, the farm, and the processing plant

open access: yesPoultry Science, 2023
: Controlling Salmonella in poultry is an ongoing food safety measure and while significant progress has been made, there is a need to continue to evaluate different strategies that include understanding Salmonella-poultry interaction, Salmonella ...
Tomi Obe   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low levels of knowledge and practice of occupational hazards among flower farm workers in southwest Shewa zone, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional analysis

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2021
Background Over the last decade, flower farms have been rapidly growing in Ethiopia. Following the advent and development of the sector, various work-related chemical, biological, physical, psychosocial, and ergonomic hazards have been emerging ...
Debela Hinsermu Geleta   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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