Abstract

BACKGROUND: Occupational injuries are a major problem in agriculture world-wide.OBJECTIVE: Sweden is developing a national approach to scoordinate different stakeholders with the common goal of reducing injuries in the agricultural sector.METHOD: The Swedish strategy involves important factors, such as: 1) Collaboration between all stakeholders involved in health and safety in agriculture, 2) A national programme on injury prevention, 3) Coordination of actions and 4) Knowledge, attitude and behaviour in focus.PARTICIPANTS: This approach is being coordinated through the Swedish Committee on Working Environment (LAMK), a network acting to achieve a good, healthy and safe working environment in Swedish agriculture. The Committee consists of representatives of authorities, institutions, companies, research and education institutions and organisations working in the green sector.RESULTS: The Swedish model will be evaluated as a whole concept on its effect on the frequency of injuries in the agricultural industry in the beginning of 2014. Promising results has been shown in evaluations of minor parts.CONCLUSIONS: This coordinated approach has been applied in others countries (United States and New Zealand) as well and seems like an efficient way of using limited resources to achieve higher impact on a specific problems such as occupational injuries in agriculture.

Keywords

Injury; prevention; collaboration; national programme; stakeholders; agriculture; Sweden

Published in

Work
2014, Volume: 49, number: 1, pages: 33-37
Publisher: IOS PRESS

SLU Authors

• Lundqvist, Peter

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Alwall Svennefelt, Catharina

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Agricultural Occupational Health and Safety


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-131766

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