Farming Accidents Questionnaire

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
Hi, my name is Emily, I am an undergraduate final year student studying Product Design at The University of Huddersfield. I am collecting data to identify the main reasons that farming accidents occur and how they could be prevented.

By answering these questions, you will consent to me using your responses in my research assignment for university. All personal data received from yourself will comply with The University of Huddersfield’s data and storage policies. You will be recorded anonymously in the report and will be referred to by your profession.

Please click the link below to fill out my survey, it will be greatly appreciated

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8T7RTS7
 

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
Hi, my name is Emily, I am an undergraduate final year student studying Product Design at The University of Huddersfield. I am collecting data to identify the main reasons that farming accidents occur and how they could be prevented.

By answering these questions, you will consent to me using your responses in my research assignment for university. All personal data received from yourself will comply with The University of Huddersfield’s data and storage policies. You will be recorded anonymously in the report and will be referred to by your profession.

Please click the link below to fill out my survey, it will be greatly appreciated

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8T7RTS7
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
If you're studying product design, asking about what causes farm accidents isn't going to really be relevant to your area of study. Very few accidents on farms will occur because of badly designed machinery or tools. Not least because if they could be shown to be purely down to such the manufacturer would be liable for his products defects.

Most farm accidents arise because of other factors, namely:

- The age of the people working in the industry. No other industry in the Uk will have 60+ year old people physically labouring in dangerous environments, but is commonplace in farming, and this is reflected in the accident stats.

- Farmers work alone and are often under time pressure due to weather constraints. This results is a 'Must get this done today' attitude that can result in accidents as people continue to use malfunctioning equipment in order to beat the weather, or take risks to save time.

- Farming can involve livestock, which are not predictable, and even highly experienced people can be caught out by their random behaviour.

- Farming involves lifting things in the air, bales of hay, straw and silage mainly, and the rule of thumb is what goes up comes down, and people can be underneath.

- Finally farming is under constant financial pressure to reduce costs as pricing is entirely out of the farmers control. Thus there is a constant incentive to cut back on machinery maintenance, repairs and renewals. Very few other industries will be using as a matter of course equipment that is 20,30 or even 40 years old.

None of which is design related I'm afraid. A lot of relevant info from the HSE here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/agriculture-fatal-injuries-1718.pdf

Note the less than 10% of fatalities are caused by being caught in machinery (ie where perhaps design could help prevent the accident). The other 90% are more of the 'interaction with the forces of nature' type - hit by moving vehicles, falling from height, things falling on them, killed by animals, that kind of thing. Basically farming involves being around large heavy things moving in unpredictable ways, and things being lifted and possibly falling on top of you.

More stats on accidents as well as fatalities here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/agriculture/agriculture.pdf
 

ecooper123

Member
Location
North Wales
If you're studying product design, asking about what causes farm accidents isn't going to really be relevant to your area of study. Very few accidents on farms will occur because of badly designed machinery or tools. Not least because if they could be shown to be purely down to such the manufacturer would be liable for his products defects.

Most farm accidents arise because of other factors, namely:

- The age of the people working in the industry. No other industry in the Uk will have 60+ year old people physically labouring in dangerous environments, but is commonplace in farming, and this is reflected in the accident stats.

- Farmers work alone and are often under time pressure due to weather constraints. This results is a 'Must get this done today' attitude that can result in accidents as people continue to use malfunctioning equipment in order to beat the weather, or take risks to save time.

- Farming can involve livestock, which are not predictable, and even highly experienced people can be caught out by their random behaviour.

- Farming involves lifting things in the air, bales of hay, straw and silage mainly, and the rule of thumb is what goes up comes down, and people can be underneath.

- Finally farming is under constant financial pressure to reduce costs as pricing is entirely out of the farmers control. Thus there is a constant incentive to cut back on machinery maintenance, repairs and renewals. Very few other industries will be using as a matter of course equipment that is 20,30 or even 40 years old.

None of which is design related I'm afraid. A lot of relevant info from the HSE here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/agriculture-fatal-injuries-1718.pdf

Note the less than 10% of fatalities are caused by being caught in machinery (ie where perhaps design could help prevent the accident). The other 90% are more of the 'interaction with the forces of nature' type - hit by moving vehicles, falling from height, things falling on them, killed by animals, that kind of thing. Basically farming involves being around large heavy things moving in unpredictable ways, and things being lifted and possibly falling on top of you.

More stats on accidents as well as fatalities here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/agriculture/agriculture.pdf

Thank you very much for taking the time to give me all of this information its really helpful. If you have any ideas for products that you feel would be useful for yourself or other farmers please contact me.

Thanks,

Emily
If you're studying product design, asking about what causes farm accidents isn't going to really be relevant to your area of study. Very few accidents on farms will occur because of badly designed machinery or tools. Not least because if they could be shown to be purely down to such the manufacturer would be liable for his products defects.

Most farm accidents arise because of other factors, namely:

- The age of the people working in the industry. No other industry in the Uk will have 60+ year old people physically labouring in dangerous environments, but is commonplace in farming, and this is reflected in the accident stats.

- Farmers work alone and are often under time pressure due to weather constraints. This results is a 'Must get this done today' attitude that can result in accidents as people continue to use malfunctioning equipment in order to beat the weather, or take risks to save time.

- Farming can involve livestock, which are not predictable, and even highly experienced people can be caught out by their random behaviour.

- Farming involves lifting things in the air, bales of hay, straw and silage mainly, and the rule of thumb is what goes up comes down, and people can be underneath.

- Finally farming is under constant financial pressure to reduce costs as pricing is entirely out of the farmers control. Thus there is a constant incentive to cut back on machinery maintenance, repairs and renewals. Very few other industries will be using as a matter of course equipment that is 20,30 or even 40 years old.

None of which is design related I'm afraid. A lot of relevant info from the HSE here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/pdf/agriculture-fatal-injuries-1718.pdf

Note the less than 10% of fatalities are caused by being caught in machinery (ie where perhaps design could help prevent the accident). The other 90% are more of the 'interaction with the forces of nature' type - hit by moving vehicles, falling from height, things falling on them, killed by animals, that kind of thing. Basically farming involves being around large heavy things moving in unpredictable ways, and things being lifted and possibly falling on top of you.

More stats on accidents as well as fatalities here:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/industry/agriculture/agriculture.pdf

Thank you very much for taking the time to give me all of this information its really helpful. If you have any ideas for products that you feel would be useful for yourself or other farmers please contact me.

Thanks,

Emily
 

graham99

Member
my biggest fear is lone working, and accidents no one would know for a day or two
i like to work alone ,
was dealing with a sheet of iron in the wind one day ,when some do gooder said let me help .
because he grabbed the iron i could no longer let go.
which meant i got cut ,cause i could know longer let go ,when i needed too
 

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