Risk Factors for Occupational Injuries among Full-Time Farmers in Finland

Taattola, Kirsti; Rautiainen, Risto; Karttunen, Janne; Suutarinen, Juha; Viluksela, Marja; Louhelainen, Kyösti; Mäittälä, Jukka

doi:10.13031/2013.41348

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“…The same phenomenon has been observed among farmers in Finland [5, 13]. It has also been reported that the Finnish speaking population has higher age-adjusted mortality rates than the Swedish speaking; higher mortality rates were found especially for alcohol related diseases, suicide, and other accidental and violent causes of death [16].…”

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Predictors for occupational injuries and diseases among commercial fishers in Finland 1996–2015

Kaustell

Mattila

Hurme

et al. 2017

International Maritime Health

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Fishing is a hazardous occupation worldwide. Commercial fishers in Finland are an aging and diminishing population with a high injury rate. Insurance claims data for self-employed Finnish commercial fishers during the years 1996 through 2015 (n = 1951) were analysed to assess predictors for occupational injuries and diseases. Out of the available variables, fishery location, career length, and participation in the voluntary occupational health service programme were not significant predictors. Male gender (OR 2.02; 95% CI 1.37–2.99), Finnish mother tongue vs. Swedish (OR 1.98, 95% CI 1.53–2.55), and higher income levels from fishing (four income categories, OR range: 1.71–3.53) were associated with higher odds for a compensated occupational injury or disease claim among commercial fishers in the final multivariate model. The identified risk groups could be targeted for interventions, and the content of the occupational health service programme should be developed to gain protective effect.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…Earlier studies have shown that the OHS program designed for farmers has in fact increased the risk of occupational injury and disease claims among farmers in Finland [5, 13]. This unexpected result may be biased as farmers self-select to join the voluntary OHS program.…”

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Predictors for occupational injuries and diseases among commercial fishers in Finland 1996–2015

Kaustell

Mattila

Hurme

et al. 2017

International Maritime Health

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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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confidence: 99%

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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“…At a more practical level, such a need has been also remarked by several studies. For example, Gangolells et al (2010) and Zhou et al (2015) remarked the lack of construction safety research on the specific working tasks, while similar concerns were addressed in the field of agriculture and forestry activities by (Fargnoli et al, 2010;Poje et al, 2016;Taattola et al, 2012;Fargnoli and Lombardi, 2018). This aspect is particularly relevant when considering the usage of a work equipment, since all the activities related to its use should be analysed during the risk assessment activities (Sadeghi et al, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%