About time to join forces within Agricultural Health & Safety!?

[Extract] We are now well into the year 2021 - fully into a new decade, and still, those who work in agriculture do so at great risk serving an industry with one of the highest rates of fatalities worldwide.1 As an example; agriculture in Great Britain has the worst rate of worker fatal injury (per 100,000) of the main industrial sectors.2 It is 18 times as high as the average rate across all industries. Similar figures are reported from other countries.3–6 The pressures on farmers, farm families, and farm workers due to changing politics, economic challenges, unpredictable weather, natural disasters, global markets, transport systems, rural isolation, and rural crime leads to increasing frustration, stress, mental health concerns, and suicide.7–10 In 2020, we also saw BOTH the pressures induced by a global pandemic, but also the direct impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 on farm workers added to current pressures.

Journal of Agromedicine

Journal of Agromedicine

26

1545-0813

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