Occupational Accidents with Agricultural Machinery in Austria

Kogler, Robert; Quendler, Elisabeth; Boxberger, Josef

doi:10.1080/1059924x.2015.1075451

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“…Khurram 2015 [30] has reported that the most common pre-disposing factors for injuries were lapses in concentration while operating machinery, such as loss of synchronization between the person moving the roller and feeding the crop. Kogler 2016 [36] reports that the loss of machine control was a main cause of accident. According to Pickett 2001 [37], three quarters of the injuries reported were found to be either due to carelessness or else no specific reason was identified.…”

Section: Causes Of Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Upper Limb’s Injuries in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

Mucci

Traversini

Lulli

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Agriculture is one of the most hazardous economic sectors, and it accounts for many accidents and occupational diseases every year. In Italy, about one-third of injuries involve the upper extremity, with long-term consequences for the workers and economic damage for agricultural companies and farms. This systematic review describes upper limb injuries among farmworkers, especially hand injuries, and highlights the main dangerous risk factors. Literature review included articles published in the major databases (PubMed, Cochrane Library, Scopus), using a combination of some relevant keywords. This online search yielded 951 references; after selection, the authors analyzed 53 articles (3 narrative reviews and 50 original articles). From this analysis, it appears that younger male farmers are mostly involved, especially in the harvesting season. The upper limb and hand are often the body parts that sustain most damage as these are mostly involved in driving tractors or tools. The most frequent type of lesions are open wounds, lacerations, fractures, strains, and overexertion lesions. Sometimes, a distracting element (such as mobile phone use, quarrels, working hours load) is present; poor use of protective devices and lack of safety design in tools can also increase the risk of accidents. For these reasons, in the agricultural sector, a system of health promotion and good practices is needed to promote workers’ awareness of the sources of risk, highlight more dangerous situations and apply organizational behavioral measures.

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Section: Causes Of Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Upper Limb’s Injuries in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

Mucci

Traversini

Lulli

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…This type of working equipment is very diffused and widely used in most agricultural activities, due to its multifunctional characteristics, ranging from use as a means of transportation in rural areas to its use for hauling a trailer or other working equipment (e.g., an atomizer, a plough, etc. ), or as a static power unit (e.g., for running a pump or a saw bench through the tractor's power take-off (PTO)) [23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. Such multi-functionality has determined the tractor's classification as a vehicle and working equipment at the same time, meaning that from a safety point of view, an interwoven set of legislative requirements applies, contributing to the difficulties of both producers and users in guaranteeing an adequate safety level [18][19][20].…”

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confidence: 99%

Safety Vision of Agricultural Tractors: An Engineering Perspective Based on Recent Studies (2009–2019)

Fargnoli

Lombardi

2019

Safety

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The high rate of injuries occurring in agricultural activities is of major concern in most countries, despite the ever-increasing efforts made at normative levels. In particular, the use of agricultural tractors is recognized as the most hazardous activity for farmers due to the large number of fatalities occurring every year. The aim of the present study was to investigate the recent developments in research activities dealing with tractor safety. For this purpose, a systematic literature review was carried out, taking into account engineering journal papers appearing in Scopus in the 2009–2019 period and focusing on tractor safety. As a result, 79 documents were selected and analyzed based on both their type (e.g., conceptual or empirical studies) and specific targets. They were then classified and discussed in accordance with a reference framework representing the main issues of agricultural tractor safety: mechanical hazards, protective devices, command and control, other hazards, ergonomics, information, conformity, and user behavior. The results of this analysis brought to light the need for a more human-centered approach when dealing with tractor safety. In addition, the lack of a reliable framework of technical standards was also stressed. Overall, despite the limitations due to the selection criteria, this study represents the first systematic literature review depicting the status of tractor safety in the engineering field, providing a basis for further research on the emerging themes outlined.

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“…[12][13][14][15][16]. Also the involvement of both users and equipment providers of agriculture machinery is important to properly analyse risk factors and the effectiveness on preventive and protective measures adopted, since it is recognized that most of occupational accidents are caused by unsafe conditions and unsafe behaviours [14,[17][18][19][20][21]. Therefore, performing risk assessment in a sequential manner (i.e.…”

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Prioritization of hazards by means of a QFD- based procedure

Lombardi¹,

Fargnoli²

2018

Int. J. SAFE

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Despite the evolution of regulations in the field of occupational health and safety promoted in EU countries, the number of accidents and victims has not significantly decreased in recent years, especially in constructions and agriculture sectors, as underlined by official reports of the Italian Workers' Compensation Authority. Main reasons of such a situation are due to the characteristics of working activities in these sectors. The variety of operations, the frequent exchange of tasks among workers within the same company, the continuous change of workplaces, the frequent exchange of workers for the same activity (e.g. seasonal workers), and the workers' stress caused by seasonal jobs. For these reasons both risk assessment and safety management activities result in being more difficult than in other working sectors. Thus, it is important to provide methodologies and tools that allow companies to carry out these tasks more effectively. In such a context, the study proposed by Esra Bas in 2014 certainly represents an attempt to provide a supporting methodology for engineers engaged in risk assessment activities. This approach consists in the use of the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method, and it is aimed at evaluating how specific tasks can be in relationship with specific hazards, which in turn are related to specific events, and finally at defining what preventive/protective measures can be introduced against those events. Based on this, we tried to further investigate such an approach, with the goal of providing an easier-to-use tool, which can be used in risk assessment activities of critical contexts as the agriculture one. With this aim in mind, a case study concerning the risk assessment of an agricultural machinery was carried out. Keywords: agricultural equipment, house of quality, machinery safety, occupational safety, quality function deployment, risk assessment 1 INTRODUCTION In last decades, regulations concerning occupational health and safety, as well as machinery safety have become more and more severe. Despite this, in most of EU countries the number of accidents and victims has not significantly decreased [1,2]. Similarly, also in other developed countries such a phenomenon is perceived [3][4][5][6]. In particular, considering the Italian context, the occurrence of serious injuries and fatalities is very critical in the agriculture activities, where the compliance with new safety requirements results in being more difficult, due to the specific characteristics of the sector [7]. Actually, it has to be underlined that difficulties related with the implementation of safety measures are numerous, in particular for small and medium sized companies (SMEs), which can hardly afford additional costs for the compliance with safety requirements. SMEs represent more than the 80% of enterprises operating in the agricultural sector in Italy, and most of them are family-owned companies. Moreover, the number of part-time workers is also consistent.Most of serious accidents in this sector occur w...

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Occupational Accidents with Agricultural Machinery in Austria

Cited by 30 publications

References 17 publications

Upper Limb’s Injuries in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

Upper Limb’s Injuries in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

Safety Vision of Agricultural Tractors: An Engineering Perspective Based on Recent Studies (2009–2019)

Prioritization of hazards by means of a QFD- based procedure

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