Agricultural safety and health is an aspect of occupational safety and health in the agricultural workplace. It specifically addresses the health and safety of farmers, farm workers, and their families.
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Risk
The agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous occupations and has led to thousands of deaths due to work-related injuries in the US. In 2011 the fatality rate for farmworkers was 7 times higher than that of all the workers in the private industry, a difference of 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 people as opposed to 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 people in the private industry. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) estimated that 374 farmers and farmworkers died due to a work-related injury in 2012, tractor overturns being the number one cause death. An average of 113 youth between the ages of 16-19 years die annually from agriculture related injuries (1995-2002). About 167 farmworkers each day are affected by a lost-work-time injury in which 5% of them suffer from permanent damage. Non-fatal injuries that farmworkers are at high risk for include work-related lung problems, hearing loss due to noise, skin diseases, various cancers due to exposure to certain chemicals as well as prolonged exposure to the sun.
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Laws and regulation
Unlike other industries that impose labor laws and occupational safety and health regulations in the workplace, agriculture deals with diverse production, large labor force and an array of environmental conditions that makes it difficult to address. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has approved 28 state plans that are required to include standards and enforcement programs. These standards and programs can have requirements that are different or more strict than OSHA's but they must be in the very least as effective as OSHA's.
See also
- Agricultural education
- Grain facility occupational exposure
References
External links
- Farm Safety - OSH issues, OSH WIKI
- APNP, Lisa F. Schiller RN MS; DVM, Kelley Donham MS; MS, Thomas Anderson BS; BS, Dawn M. Dingledein RN; BA, Rhonda R. Strebel (2010-03-31). "Incorporating Occupational Health Interventions in a Community-Based Participatory Preventive Health Program for Farm Families: A Qualitative Study". Journal of Agromedicine. 15 (2): 117-126. doi:10.1080/10599241003622491. ISSN 1059-924X. PMID 20407993.
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