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A rapid review of leading indicators to measure Australian farm safety culture [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
Agriculture accounts for over half of Australia's land use therefore the farmers managing this land need to be safe at work. This paper offers measuring farm safety culture as a way to overcome the stagnation in the trend of fatal farm injury burden.
Amity Latham   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Promoting childhood farm safety in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
John McNamara   +2 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Media advocacy for farm safety and health: current landscape and future directions [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background Within public health, media advocacy embraces the influence of new media and journalists in setting public agendas and promoting important public health programming and policies.
Pamela J. Milkovich   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Farm Safety Practices and Farm Size in New South Wales

open access: yesJournal of Agromedicine, 2017
Objective: There is some evidence to suggest that safety on small-area farms may not be high priority due to economic constraints and lack of knowledge. This has important ramifications for injury and economic burden. The objective of this research was to conduct a pilot study to investigate whether small- to medium-area farms implement fewer safety ...
Jannine Bailey   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
Despite long-standing safety recommendations that non-working children be supervised off the worksite by an adult, little is known about farm families' ability to comply. We conducted a review of 92 documents and 36 key informant interviews in three U.S.
Florence Becot   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A feasibility study of Augmented Reality Intervention for Safety Education for farm parents and children

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
Agriculture is one of the most dangerous U.S. occupations with high rates of injuries and fatalities, and especially more dangerous for children, having more young worker deaths than any other industry.
Kang Namkoong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A calm companion lowers fear in groups of dairy cows

open access: yesJournal of Dairy Science, 2022
: Dairy cows are generally calm and compliant, but some management procedures can make cows fearful or stressed. Not only are fearful cattle a threat to human safety, but fear is also detrimental to animal welfare and productivity.
J. Stenfelt, J. Yngvesson, M.V. Rørvang
doaj   +1 more source

Recruiting farm parents for a 6-week online child safety survey study using paid Facebook advertisements

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication, 2023
Agricultural populations are a popular target for research due to the industry's dangerous conditions, unique work environments, and youth-including workforce.
Richard Burke   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural youth injuries: An updated review of cases from U.S. news media reports, 2016–2021

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2022
IntroductionFatal and non-fatal youth (ages 0–17) injuries in U.S. agriculture continue to be a significant public health concern. Despite sustained work and attention from federally supported research programming, we continue to observe an unacceptably ...
Bryan P. Weichelt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phylogenetic Groups and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli from Different Meat Species

open access: yesAntibiotics, 2021
Escherichia coli isolated from meat of different animal species may harbour antimicrobial resistance genes and may thus be a threat to human health. The objectives of this study were to define antimicrobial resistance genes in E. coli isolates from pork,
Angelika Sacher-Pirklbauer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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