Safety management regarding agricultural machinery
2015
Nysand, M., Natural Resources Inst. Finland (Luke), Luke, Vihti (Finland) | Rautiainen, R., Natural Resources Inst. Finland (Luke), Luke, Vihti (Finland);University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha (USA).College of Public Health. Dept. of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health | Leppaelae, J., Natural Resources Inst. Finland (Luke), Luke, Vihti (Finland) | Ronkainen, A., Natural Resources Inst. Finland (Luke), Luke, Vihti (Finland)
The project aims to help machinery manufacturers integrate safety features and functions into machinery design as part of machine usability. It is known that farmers tend to by-pass safety features that they feel cumbersome rendering them ineffective and thus compromising safety. Well designed safety features are crucial especially for new agricultural machinery with high level of automation. Finally, we aim to describe machinery safety management principles, describe the overall risk level in machinery use, and provide guidance for machine manufacturers and users that can help them identify, assess and monitor risks related to agricultural machinery. The project now has results of part 1), the survey of documented accidents. Examples of findings: The estimated cost of benefit payments for serious accidents is about 8 million Euros per year, and machinery cause the majority of serious accidents. On average, one machine accident causes 33 lost workdays and compensation to the casualty from the insurance of 3800 euro. Farm machinery types causing the most accidents are tractors, trailers, combines, front loaders and other loaders, drills for fertilizer and seed, ploughs, harrows, balers and choppers. The clearly most common situation where accidents occur is not during actual operation of the machines, but during service and repair of the machines – a third of all machinery accidents. Of these, a common accident type is persons being crushed under falling machines and machine parts during repair work. 33% of the farmers are women, but only 8.6% of the machinery accidents have occurred to women. This is probably mainly because women work less with machines than men.
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