Non-intentional Farm-Related Incidents in Australia 2021
AgHealth Australia has been leading research into deaths and injuries on farm since 2004, providing the most comprehensive evidence on which to build prevention approaches...
Making Farm Machinery Safer – lessons from injured farmers
84 pages
Published: 8 Feb 2008
Author(s): Baker, Wayne, Day, Lesley, Stephen, Karen, Voakla, Don
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This report complements the recent series of reports on farm injury by the Australian Centre for Agricultural Health and Safety (Farm Machinery Injury: Injury involving tractor run-over, Farm Machinery Injury: Injuries associated with posthole diggers, and Farm Machinery Injury: Power take-off shaft guards), outlining preventive strategies for specific items of farm machinery injury. This report undertakes a comparative analysis of the characteristics of farmers who have, and have not, recently sustained a farm work related machinery injury. This comparison was extended to include machinery characteristics. The inclusion of the machines in the study allowed for an in-depth epidemiological and engineering investigation of design features associated with injury.