An outcome evaluation of a New Zealand farm safety intervention: A historical cohort study

Cryer, Colin; Langley, John Desmond; Samaranayaka, Ari; Davie, Gabrielle; Morgaine, Kate C; Lilley, Rebbecca; Barson, David

doi:10.1002/ajim.22290

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“…Similarly, an evaluation of FarmSafe (the New Zealand Farm Safety Intervention program) concluded there was no evidence that this program prevents farm injuries. 39 Other evaluations of education-based interventions confirms the poor outcome in terms of reducing occupational injuries in agriculture. [40][41][42] Further in-depth studies are needed on how these education-based interventions were planned and delivered, and how they were received by the target farming population.…”

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Safe Farmer Common Sense’ - A National Five-Year Education-Based Program for Prevention of Occupational Injuries in Swedish Agriculture-Background, Process, and Evaluation

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Lundqvist

2019

Journal of Agromedicine

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Background: This paper provides background and a process description for a national initiative ('Safe Farmer Common Sense') on prevention of occupational injuries in Swedish agriculture. Methods: This initiative, which received investment funding of 65 million SEK (6.5 million USD) from the European Union (EU) over the 5-year period 2009-2013, was jointly developed by researchers, agricultural organizations, authorities, and politicians. The program had a farmercentered perspective and included short courses, on-farm visits by supervisors, and a number of education events and awareness-promoting activities. Results: Our analysis showed that the concept was successful, since it involved farmers to a greater extent and prompted a high proportion of these to introduce injury prevention measures on their farms compared with a control group. The analysis also confirmed that these activities continued two-three years after participation in the program. Conclusion: The program was not found to have any major effect on the number of occupational injuries, although the level of occupational fatalities was lower during the intervention period. Thus the investment can be questioned as regards the limited impact on the number of workrelated injuries in Swedish agriculture and may have been too short to have a lasting effect.

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Safe Farmer Common Sense’ - A National Five-Year Education-Based Program for Prevention of Occupational Injuries in Swedish Agriculture-Background, Process, and Evaluation

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Lundqvist

2019

Journal of Agromedicine

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“…There has been an over-reliance on employer self-management of safety risks in the workplace 9 34. The few targeted sector-based interventions have been short lived, had low uptake and failed to change patterns of injury 35. Failure to respond to consistently high rates of fatal injury sits with many actors within NZ’s safety system and future efforts to address these failures need to start with using the most comprehensive and detailed data available to inform effective, targeted injury prevention interventions.…”

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Decade of fatal injuries in workers in New Zealand: insights from a comprehensive national observational study

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IntroductionCurrent priorities and strategies to prevent work-related fatal injury (WRFI) in New Zealand (NZ) are based on incomplete data capture. This paper provides an overview of key results from a comprehensive 10-year NZ study of worker fatalities using coronial records.MethodsA data set of workers, aged 15–84 years at the time of death who died in the period 2005–2014, was created using coronial records. Data collection involved: (1) identifying possible cases from mortality records using selected external cause of injury codes; (2) linking these to coronial records; (3) retrieving and reviewing records for work-relatedness; and (4) coding work-related cases. Frequencies, percentages and rates were calculated. Analyses were stratified into workplace and work-traffic settings.ResultsOver the decade, 955 workers were fatally injured, giving a rate of 4.8 (95% CI 5.6 to 6.3) per 100 000 worker-years. High rates of worker fatalities were observed for workers aged 70–84 years, indigenous Māori and for males. Workers employed in mining had the highest rate in workplace settings while transport, postal and warehousing employees had the highest rate in work-traffic settings. Vehicle-related mechanisms dominated the mechanism and vehicles and environmental agents dominated the breakdown agencies contributing to worker fatalities.DiscussionThis study shows the rates of worker fatalities vary widely by age, sex, ethnicity, occupation and industry and are a very serious problem for particular groups. Future efforts to address NZ’s high rates of WRFI should use these findings to aid understanding where preventive actions should be prioritised.

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“…Par exemple, dans le cadre de la réalisation d'activités de désherbage ou de débroussaillage (Imbeau et al, 2010), de cueillette dans les champs (Chapman et al, 2008) ou pour la plantation d'arbres , des postures contraignantes en flexion et/ou torsion du tronc ont été documentées. L'étude de Houshyar et Kim (2018) La manutention manuelle de charges lourdes, sollicitant des efforts et l'exercice d'une force, a aussi été répertoriée dans d'autres études comme une contrainte physique de TMS, notamment lors des déchargements de poissons, de crabes, d'appâts ou de casiers de pêche (Lipscomb et al, 2004) ou encore en agriculture lors des récoltes (Chapman et al, 2008;Chubilleau et al, 2012;Cryer et al, 2009;Earle-Richardson et al, 2004 et des manipulations de caisses de fruits (Chapman et al, 2008;.…”

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An outcome evaluation of a New Zealand farm safety intervention: A historical cohort study

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Safe Farmer Common Sense’ - A National Five-Year Education-Based Program for Prevention of Occupational Injuries in Swedish Agriculture-Background, Process, and Evaluation

Safe Farmer Common Sense’ - A National Five-Year Education-Based Program for Prevention of Occupational Injuries in Swedish Agriculture-Background, Process, and Evaluation

Decade of fatal injuries in workers in New Zealand: insights from a comprehensive national observational study

Début de la saison de travail : une période critique pour la santé des travailleuses et des travailleurs saisonniers

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