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

Heliyon
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, Jacqueline Cotton, Susan Brumby   +2 more
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Media advocacy for farm safety and health: current landscape and future directions [PDF]

BMC 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, Sarah Perez-Sanz, Kim Garcia, Pamela Mejia, Andrew Johnson, Julie A. Sorensen   +5 more
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Childcare for farm families: A key strategy to keep children safe yet largely absent from farm programming

Frontiers 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, Shoshanah Inwood, Andrea Rissing   +2 more
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A feasibility study of Augmented Reality Intervention for Safety Education for farm parents and children

Frontiers 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, John Leach, Junhan Chen, Jiawen Zhang, Bryan Weichelt   +4 more
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A calm companion lowers fear in groups of dairy cows

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

Frontiers 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, Bryan P. Weichelt, Kang Namkoong, Melissa Ploeckelman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli and Resistance Genes in Coliphages from a Small Animal Clinic and in a Patient Dog with Chronic Urinary Tract Infection

Antibiotics, 2020
Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in certain pathogens that infect pets and their owners. This has raised concerns about the use of antibiotics and the transfer of resistance elements in small animal clinics.
Veronika Zechner, Dmitrij Sofka, Peter Paulsen, Friederike Hilbert   +3 more
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Agricultural youth injuries: An updated review of cases from U.S. news media reports, 2016–2021

Frontiers 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, Serap Gorucu, Rick R. Burke, Marsha A. Salzwedel, Dennis J. Murphy, Barbara C. Lee   +5 more
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Phylogenetic Groups and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Escherichia coli from Different Meat Species

Antibiotics, 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, Daniela Klein-Jöbstl, Dmitrij Sofka, Anne-Béatrice Blanc-Potard, Friederike Hilbert   +4 more
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A new long-term sampling approach to viruses on surfaces

Scientific Reports, 2021
The importance of virus disease outbreaks and its prevention is of growing public concern but our understanding of virus transmission routes is limited by adequate sampling strategies.
Julia Sommer, Martin Bobal, Birgit Bromberger, Patrick-Julian Mester, Peter Rossmanith   +4 more
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