Kaewboonchoo Orawan, Kongtip Pornpimol, Woskie Susan
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
Department of Occupational Safety and Health, Faculty of Public Health, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
New Solut. 2015 May;25(1):102-20. doi: 10.1177/1048291115569028. Epub 2015 Mar 16.
Over 16.7 million workers in Thailand (42 percent of the working population) are engaged in agriculture, disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic strata of Thai society. Most agricultural workers (over 93 percent) work in the informal sector without the protections of regulations or enforcement of labor or health and safety laws or enrollment in a social security system. Although Thailand's use of herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides is growing, there is little regulation of the sale, use, or application of these potentially toxic chemicals. This paper summarizes the research to date on occupational health and safety for Thai agricultural workers, identifies gaps in pesticide regulations and the current systems for occupational health and safety and social support for Thai agricultural workers, and makes recommendations for future policy and research initiatives to fill the identified gaps.
泰国超过1670万工人（占劳动人口的42%）从事农业，且不成比例地来自泰国社会较低社会经济阶层。大多数农业工人（超过93%）在非正规部门工作，没有法规保护，也没有劳动、健康和安全法律的执行保障，也未加入社会保障体系。尽管泰国除草剂、杀菌剂和杀虫剂的使用量在不断增加，但对这些潜在有毒化学品的销售、使用或施用几乎没有监管。本文总结了迄今为止关于泰国农业工人职业健康与安全的研究，指出了农药法规以及泰国农业工人职业健康与安全和社会支持现行体系中的差距，并就填补已查明差距的未来政策和研究举措提出了建议。
