Financial Considerations for Health and Safety in the Australian Dairy Industry

Lower, Tony; Pollock, Kirrily

doi:10.1080/1059924x.2017.1283279

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“…Investments in safety often compete with investments to increase productivity and general family needs. Typically, farmers choose lower-order, cheaper safety options [ 93 ]. Saluja and colleagues [ 2 ] explained that parents acknowledge there are changes they can implement to enhance their child’s safety but are faced with limited economic and practical resources.…”

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Child Farm-Related Injury in Australia: A Review of the Literature

Adams

Kennedy

Cotton

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Children on farms have been identified as a population vulnerable to injury. This review seeks to identify child farm-related injury rates in Australia and to determine the key hazards and contributing risk factors. This critical review utilised the PRISMA guidelines for database searching. Research from the year 2000 onward was included as well as earlier seminal texts. Reference lists were searched, and the relevant research material was explored. Our primary focus was on Australian peer-reviewed literature with international and grey literature examples included. Evidence suggests that there is limited Australian research focusing on child farm-related injuries. Child representation in farm-related injuries in Australia has remained consistent over time, and the key hazards causing these injuries have remained the same for over 20 years. The factors contributing to child rates of farm injury described in the literature include child development and exposure to dangerous environments, the risk-taking culture, multi-generational farming families, lack of supervision, child labour and lack of regulation, limited targeted farm safety programs, underuse of safe play areas, financial priorities and poor understanding and operationalisation of the hierarchy of control. It is well known that children experience injury on farms, and the key hazards that cause this have been clearly identified. However, the level of exposure to hazards and the typical attitudes, behaviours and actions of children and their parents around the farm that contribute to chid injury remain unexplored.

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Child Farm-Related Injury in Australia: A Review of the Literature

Adams

Kennedy

Cotton

et al. 2021

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“…22,23 A recent pilot study in the Australian dairy sector indicated that small investments that are well targeted can have significant positive safety and financial benefits. 24 Whether assessed from the broader industry or from an individual farm business perspective, it is often remarked that people are the most important asset that a business can have and that safety is a number one priority. 25 Notwithstanding such rhetoric, the actual investments in health and safety stand in contrast to these assertions.…”

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confidence: 99%