Kentucky Injury Prevention
and Research Center Publications
An Economic Motivator for Safe Farming: Changing Perceptions Through Learning
P.S. Kidd, S.G. Isaacs, H.P. Cole, M. Parshall, T. Scharf, T. Struttmann
Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health 1998; Special Issue 1: 205-212.Farm owner-operators and workers tend to make safety decisions from a subjective cost/benefit perspective. Our research has supported that farmworkers do not recognize the direct and indirect costs associated with work0related injury and thus are not making safety decisions on an accurate basis. We have developed two injury prevention interventions that require the active participation of the farmworker, acknowledge that farm economics and productivity are influential in shaping the improvements to economic viability of the farm. The two interventions, Kayles' Difficult Decisions exercise and the Farm Planning Tool, are discussed from a developmental and testing perspective. Considerations for using theses interventions in agricultural health and safety are addressed.
Keywords: Agricultural economics, agricultural safety, injury prevention
Comments to Mark Schneider, Last Modified: July 9, 2001 by JP
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