Participatory Approaches to Improving Safety and Health under Trade Union Initiative-Experiences of POSITIVE Training Program in Asia-.

Kawakami, Tsuyoshi; Kogi, Kazutaka; Toyama, Naoki; Yoshikawa, Toru

doi:10.2486/indhealth.42.196

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“…Researchers tried to take roles only as observers and providers of necessary information to a group meeting. Community involvement were the important process to solve agricultural occupational health problems leading to good health [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12] . From situation analysis of agricultural occupational health problems, farmerleader research group realized problems; however, they were more concerned with their financial situation.…”

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Model Development for Health Promotion and Control of Agricultural Occupational Health Hazards and Accidents in Pathumthani, Thailand

Buranatrevedh

Sweatsriskul

2005

Ind Health

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In Thailand, agriculture is one of the major occupations; however, there is no comprehensive agricultural occupational health promotion and disease prevention model available. Objectives of this study were to empower farmers to study occupational health and safety situation in rice farming and to develop model to promote their health and prevent occupational health hazards among them. This participatory action research was performed in Tambol Klong 7, Klongluang district, Pathumthani, Thailand. The 24 rice farmers from 9 villages were voluntarily recruited as members of research team called farmer-leader research group. This group had a monthly meeting to discuss issues of agricultural occupational health and safety during 3 yr study period. At first stage, farmer-leader research group analyzed occupational health and safety during rice farming process. After we had results from situation analysis, farmer-leader research group decided which problems would be solved first. We developed model to solve those problems during the second stage. Finally, model was implemented to farmers in the study area. During first stage, results of questionnaires showed that there were 3 major occupational health and safety problems among these farmers; symptoms from pesticide exposure (65% of respondents), musculoskeletal problems during various process (16.6%-75.9%), and injuries during various process (1.1%-83.2%). From these results, farmer-leader research group decided to deal with pesticide problem. There was an experiment comparing using biofertilizers and bio pest-control with using chemical fertilizers and pesticides in the rice paddy. Results showed that the biological field produced the same amount of rice as the chemical field but cost less money than the chemical one. Benefits from using biofertilizers and bio pest-control were having higher profit, less exposure to chemicals, and good mental health from higher profit. After this experiment, biofertilizers and bio pest-control were disseminated to rice-farmers and students and teachers in local schools. At the end of study, we found that there were networks of farmers and networks of students-teachers using biological methods. This study showed that participation with farmers could create a real sustainable model to promote farmers' health and prevent them from occupational health hazards.

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Model Development for Health Promotion and Control of Agricultural Occupational Health Hazards and Accidents in Pathumthani, Thailand

Buranatrevedh

Sweatsriskul

2005

Ind Health

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“…As shown in Table 1, participatory training programmes typically based on WISE (work improvement in small enterprises) methods have gradually spread to other settings 4,9) . They include K KOGI p r o g r a m m e s o f W I N D ( w o r k i m p r o v e m e n t i n neighbourhood development) for farmers 10,11) , WISH (work improvement for safe home) for home workers and POSITIVE (participation-oriented safety improvement by trade union initiative) activities 12) . The progress in these training programmes is further compared with recent experiences in applying similar participatory steps to occupational safety and health management systems.…”

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Advances in Participatory Occupational Health Aimed at Good Practices in Small Enterprises and the Informal Sector

Kogi

2006

Ind Health

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Participatory programmes for occupational risk reduction are gaining importance particularly in small workplaces in both industrially developing and developed countries. To discuss the types of effective support, participatory steps commonly seen in our "work improvement-Asia" network are reviewed. The review covered training programmes for small enterprises, farmers, home workers and trade union members. Participatory steps commonly focusing on low-cost good practices locally achieved have led to concrete improvements in multiple technical areas including materials handling, workstation ergonomics, physical environment and work organization. These steps take advantage of positive features of small workplaces in two distinct ways. First, local key persons are ready to accept local good practices conveyed through personal, informal approaches. Second, workers and farmers are capable of understanding technical problems affecting routine work and taking flexible actions leading to solving them. This process is facilitated by the use of locally adjusted training tools such as local good examples, action checklists and group work methods. It is suggested that participatory occupational health programmes can work in small workplaces when they utilize low-cost good practices in a flexible manner. Networking of these positive experiences is essential.

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“…Another advantage is that the relationship between the manager and workers is often closer, so that cooperation of the manager and workers is easy. Therefore, it is expected that the work condition at small workplaces will be improved, if adequate support for the managers and workers of such workplaces is provided from the outside [3][4][5][6][7][8][9] .…”

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Approaches to Occupational Health Based on Participatory Methodology in Small Workplaces

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An intervention based on the methodology developed by the International Labour Office, the Work Improvement in Small Enterprises (WISE) was carried out to improve work condition of small-scale enterprises and the informal sector in the Philippines, Thailand and Japan. Through the evaluation of the efficacy of the approaches based on participatory methodology, it is concluded that the method is an efficient measure to improve work condition in small workplaces. It is also pointed out that the activities of supporting experts such as introduction of the methodology and evaluation of the activity are necessary. The important roles of the experts are 1) to encourage managers and workers to sustain the activities for work improvement, 2) to analyse the effectiveness and problems of the implemented improvements, 3) to give appropriate suggestions for the further improvement, and 4) to get materials for demonstrating the effectiveness of WISE activities on improving work conditions and productivity to other managers and workers who have not participated in the activity.

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Participatory Approaches to Improving Safety and Health under Trade Union Initiative-Experiences of POSITIVE Training Program in Asia-.

Cited by 48 publications

References 8 publications

Model Development for Health Promotion and Control of Agricultural Occupational Health Hazards and Accidents in Pathumthani, Thailand

Model Development for Health Promotion and Control of Agricultural Occupational Health Hazards and Accidents in Pathumthani, Thailand

Advances in Participatory Occupational Health Aimed at Good Practices in Small Enterprises and the Informal Sector

Approaches to Occupational Health Based on Participatory Methodology in Small Workplaces

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