Operational safety practices as determinants of machinery-related injury on Saskatchewan farms

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1226-1231

  Narasimhan, Gopinath R ^a   Peng, Yingwei ^a   Crowe, Trever G ^b   Hagel, Louise ^c   Dosman, James ^c,d   Pickett, William ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Farming; Occupational injury; Operational exposure; Safety practices

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRATEGIES; DATA SOURCE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; INJURY PREVENTION; LOW LEVEL; MACHINERY MAINTENANCE; MACHINERY SAFETY; OCCUPATIONAL INJURY; OPERATIONAL SAFETY; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; RELATED INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; ROUTINE MAINTENANCE; SAFETY PRACTICES; SASKATCHEWAN;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; FARMS; HEALTH RISKS; MAINTENANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAFETY DEVICES; SAFETY FACTOR;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAINTENANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SASKATCHEWAN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955331659     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2010.01.016     Document Type: Article

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