Abstract
In many productive sectors, ensuring a safe working environment is still an underestimated problem, and especially so in farming. A lack of attention to safety and poor risk awareness by operators represents a crucial problem, which results in numerous serious injuries and fatal accidents. The Demetra project, involving the collaboration of the Regional Directorate of INAIL (National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work), aims to devise operational solutions to evaluate the risk of accidents in agricultural work and analyze the dynamics of occupational accidents by using an observational method to help farmers ensure optimal safety levels. The challenge of the project is to support farmers with tools designed to encourage good safety management in the agricultural workplaces.
Highlights
To contextualize and define the occurrence of accidents involving farms we need to identify the main risk factors of specific work activities
Mechanical risks; Biomechanical risks due to repetitive movements and postural issues; Interference risks; serious and fatal workplace injuries due to poorly qualified or inexperienced farm workers who may be employed on several farms
As far as employment is concerned, the farming sector does not follow standard patterns and each individual farm may well demand specific solutions if safety levels are to be improved; Improvement pathways and tools need to be devised that work in association with governance models for SMEs and family-run agricultural enterprises; We need to define operational procedures for two main areas: work organization and production, which require dedicated safety solutions for machinery and equipment; It is essential to pay attention to the evolution of both production facilities and reception facilities, and so identify a set of innovative organizational and technical solutions to safety issues
Summary
To contextualize and define the occurrence of accidents involving farms we need to identify the main risk factors of specific work activities. Following the preliminary investigative analysis, the initial phase of the project clearly showed that: As far as employment is concerned, the farming sector does not follow standard patterns and each individual farm may well demand specific solutions if safety levels are to be improved; Improvement pathways and tools need to be devised that work in association with governance models for SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and family-run agricultural enterprises; We need to define operational procedures for two main areas: work organization and production, which require dedicated safety solutions for machinery and equipment; It is essential to pay attention to the evolution of both production facilities and reception facilities, and so identify a set of innovative organizational and technical solutions to safety issues
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