A multibody approach applied to the study of driver injuries due to a narrow-track wheeled tractor rollover

Pascuzzi, Simone

doi:10.4081/jae.2015.466

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“…The agricultural sector is one of the professional activities most affected by injuries also because several operations, such as pruning, pesticide treatments, harvesting, and so on, still require the direct man's involvement, which is therefore subject to specific risk factors [1][2][3]. In some cases farmers can also operate on agricultural areas contaminated by potential risk situations without their awareness [4][5] as when they are involved in activities both in open-field and within enclosed productive structures in the surrounding areas of radio base stations (RBSs) [6][7].…”

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Evaluation of farmers' OSH hazard in operationnearby mobile telephone radio base stations

Pascuzzi¹,

Santoro²

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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Abstract. In this paper, the authors investigated in the farmers' EMF exposures when they operate in the vicinity of mobile telephone RBSs in order to assess if in the operating frequency range of a transmitting station used by mobile phone service the limits imposed by the Italian laws are kept into proper consideration. Three mobile telephone RBSs having different geometrical and technical features, placed on rural areas of the Apulia Region have been considered. By means of a series of parallelepipeds constructed using a piece of software specifically designed it is possible to state that effective electric field that each of the three investigated stations produced was such that the exposure levels to which farmers are subjected in the surrounding SRB areas are safely within the Italian law limits.Keywords: risk assessment, electromagnetic field, cellular network, farmers' exposure, EC Directive 2013/35. IntroductionThe agricultural sector is one of the professional activities most affected by injuries also because several operations, such as pruning, pesticide treatments, harvesting, and so on, still require the direct man's involvement, which is therefore subject to specific risk factors [1][2][3]. In some cases farmers can also operate on agricultural areas contaminated by potential risk situations without their awareness [4][5] as when they are involved in activities both in open-field and within enclosed productive structures in the surrounding areas of radio base stations (RBSs) [6][7]. These RBSs can be placed close to crops that require a lot of activities (i.e. horticultural cultivations, "tendone" trained vineyards, olive orchards, and so on), so that workers, each day in which they perform their job activity, spend a considerable number of hours in their neighbourhood, with no kind of preventive measure to protect against the possible dangerous effect related to the presence of an electromagnetic field [8][9].The irradiation of signal takes place by means of time-varying of both electric field and magnetic field, which permits the transmission of a given amount of energy using electromagnetic waves [10][11] The Italian Safety Consolidation Act[12]among the various risks for workers' safety included also the risk related to the exposition, during the work, to electromagnetic fields (0 Hz ÷ 300 GHz). This law concerns the safety and health risk protection against the known short term dangerous effects related to induced current circulation and energy absorption inside the human body and arises by the transposition of the ICNIRP recommendations [13] and the EU Directive[14]into national legislation, and their applications were at first established on 30 April 2008 and afterwards delayed by further Directives [15][16]. The exposure limits to EMF for the general public in the frequency range 100 kHz to 300 GHz have been also implemented into Italian legislation [17], according to the ICNIRP guidelines.In this paper the authors investigated the farmers' exposures who perform their job in the vicinity of...

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Evaluation of farmers' OSH hazard in operationnearby mobile telephone radio base stations

Pascuzzi¹,

Santoro²

2017

Engineering for Rural Development

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“…However, it has led to the requirement for higher attention to detail in all the areas concerning occupational health and safety [1][2][3], as well as in the exposure of workers' to potentially dangerous physical agents [4][5][6][7], activities [8,9] or environments [10]. Amongst these last hazards, of relevant importance is the exposure of workers to noise within plants during food processing [11][12][13], as is also the case inside olive oil mills during the olive oil extraction process, where noise levels are usually high and should be carefully measured.…”

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Analysis of Possible Noise Reduction Arrangements inside Olive Oil Mills: A Case Study

Pascuzzi

Santoro

2017

Agriculture

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Apulia (Southern Italy) is the leading Italian region for the production of olive oil (115 × 10 6 kg of oil/year), and the olive oil chain is really important from a business point of view. Currently, the extraction of olive oil is essentially performed by using a mechanical pressing process (traditional olive oil mills), or by the centrifugation process (modern olive oil mills). The aim of this paper is to evaluate in detail the noise levels within a typical olive oil mill located in the northern part of the Apulia region during olive oil extraction. The feasibility of this study focusing on the assessment of workers' exposure to noise was tested in compliance with the Italian-European Regulations and US standards and criteria. Several measurements of the noise emission produced by each machine belonging to the productive cycle were carried out during olive oil production. The results obtained were then used to evaluate possible improvements to carry out in order to achieve better working conditions. An effective reduction in noise could probably be achieved through a combination of different solutions, which obviously have to be assessed not only from a technical point of view but also an economic one. A significant reduction in noise levels could be achieved by increasing the area of the room allotted to the olive oil extraction cycle by removing all the unnecessary partition walls that might be present.

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“…The use of nozzle bodies that allow a greater number of available angular positions would certainly facilitate the adjustment of the sprayer using the patternator. The risk to nourishing the "off-target" losses is linked to the amount of liquid collected by the intercepting tools placed downwards (1 and 2 in Figure 4c), i.e., those ones located at 95-110 cm above the soil and then well below the canopy and the productive area of the "tendone" vines [28]. The assessment of the spray profiles produced by both the air blast sprayers pointed out that, in a greater or lesser proportion, the nozzles 4l and 3l (when −15 • rotated) and 4r and 3r (when in +15 • rotated) (Figure 4c) would be responsible for the "off-target" losses.…”

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Outcomes on the Spray Profiles Produced by the Feasible Adjustments of Commonly Used Sprayers in “Tendone” Vineyards of Apulia (Southern Italy)

Pascuzzi

2016

Sustainability

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Abstract:The objective of the research was to assess the outcomes on the spray patterns produced by the different feasible adjustments of two different air blast sprayers and one mist blower sprayer, commonly employed for treatments to Apulian "tendone" vineyards. The spray profiles of these machines and the respective refinements affected by the alteration of the available adjusting devices were evaluated using a test bench, suitably set up for calibrating the sprayers used inside such vines. The air blast sprayers, compared with the mist blower model, have a better chance to match the spray pattern and the canopy profile of the "tendone" vines. Furthermore, the left-right asymmetry of the spray profile is reduced only in the case of sprayers with two counter-rotating fans, under certain operating conditions. Conversely, the symmetry index worsens with the activation of the fan in the case of the air blast sprayer fitted with a single fan either with or without the air deflectors. The mist blower sprayer develops lower drawbacks, in terms of left-right asymmetry of the spray profile, even if the high "stiffness" of the spray profile makes this sprayer not particularly suitable to the changing needs of the canopy of the "tendone" vineyards. The obtained results, even if related to the analyzed sprayers, can represent an original base of reference to set up guidelines for the adjustment of sprayers used for treatments inside "tendone" vineyards, very useful for the officially authorized Apulian workshops to make sprayers inspection and calibration.

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A multibody approach applied to the study of driver injuries due to a narrow-track wheeled tractor rollover

Cited by 25 publications

References 30 publications

Evaluation of farmers' OSH hazard in operationnearby mobile telephone radio base stations

Evaluation of farmers' OSH hazard in operationnearby mobile telephone radio base stations

Analysis of Possible Noise Reduction Arrangements inside Olive Oil Mills: A Case Study

Outcomes on the Spray Profiles Produced by the Feasible Adjustments of Commonly Used Sprayers in “Tendone” Vineyards of Apulia (Southern Italy)

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