Agricultural Safety and Health

Farm Food Safety Practices in the North of Iran

Food safety begins on the farms and farmers play a crucial role in producing healthy food. Several factors were investigated here including water quality, labor health, health facilities, packaging and storage, transportation, fertilizers and solid organic materials, and field sanitation to reach more comprehensive results. So, 380 farmers were selected from 77 villages of rural areas of Gonbad...

دانش ایمنی کارشناسان کشاورزی جنوب غرب ایران در کار با ماشین‌آلات کشاورزی

 Background & Objectives: Agricultural mechanization development in parallel of growing this sector treat farmers' health and safety and other persons in farms. Safety training has a vital role in reducting agricultural machinery operators and farmers' occupational injuries. The purpose of this research was study of agricultural expert's knowledge toward safe work with agricultural machine...

Two (or more) heads are better than one.

Farm tractor rollover protection: why simply getting rollover protective structures installed on all tractors is not sufficient.

Harvest of need: addressing health and safety challenges on North Carolina's farms.

Agriculture is North Carolina's leading source of revenue and its most dangerous industry. This issue brief, along with the commentaries and sidebars in the associated policy forum, addresses the complexity of agricultural health and safety in North Carolina and concludes that the following activities are crucial to reducing the incidence of agricultural illness, injury, and death in the state:...

Occupational health and safety status of indigenous and Latino farmworkers in Oregon.

Exposure to pesticides poses great risk to agricultural workers and their families. Of the approximately 174,000 agricultural workers in Oregon, studies estimate that up to 40% of the workers in Oregon are indigenous and may be particularly vulnerable to the health risks of working in pesticide treated areas. Surveys conducted with Oregon farmworkers suggest that Latino and indigenous farmworke...