Training and other predictors of personal protective equipment use in Australian grain farmers using pesticides

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 141-146

  MacFarlane, E ^a   Chapman, A ^b   Benke, G ^a   Meaklim, J ^c   Sim, M ^a   McNeil, J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Department of Human Services ^*  (Australia)

^c VIC Environment Protection Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGICIDE; HERBICIDE; INSECTICIDE; PESTICIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; AGRICULTURE; CEREAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GAS MASK; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; AUSTRALIA; CEREALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLOVES, PROTECTIVE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PESTICIDES; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY PROTECTIVE DEVICES;

EID: 38949135922     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.034843     Document Type: Article

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