Institute for Agricultural and Earthmoving Machines (IMAMOTER) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy.
Department of Psychology, University of Torino.
J Occup Health. 2018 Jan 25;60(1):80-84. doi: 10.1539/joh.17-0061-BR. Epub 2017 Nov 1.
We aimed at testing a model of the direct and indirect effects of being a part-time farmer on the probability of being involved in an agricultural machinery-related accident, considering the role played by unsafe beliefs and the frequency of use of machinery.
Two-hundred and fifty-two Italian men, regular users of agricultural machinery (age: Mean = 45.1 years, standard Deviation = 17.5), were administered a paper-and-pencil questionnaire addressing their relation with work, unsafe beliefs, and previous experience of machinery-related accidents.
Being a part-time farmer showed a positive association with unsafe beliefs only among occasional machinery users. Unsafe beliefs in turn showed a positive association with accidents.
The study gave a novel contribution to the knowledge of the chain of events connecting part-time farmers with machinery-related accidents. Preventive training interventions targeting part-timer farmers using agricultural machinery just occasionally should be developed.
本研究旨在测试兼职农民对农业机械相关事故参与概率的直接和间接影响的模型，同时考虑到不安全信念和机械使用频率所起的作用。
对 252 名意大利男性（年龄：均值=45.1 岁，标准差=17.5）进行了问卷调查，内容包括他们与工作、不安全信念和以往农业机械事故经历的关系。
仅在偶尔使用机械的人群中，兼职农民与不安全信念呈正相关。不安全信念反过来又与事故呈正相关。
本研究为连接兼职农民与农业机械事故的事件链提供了新的认识。应针对偶尔使用农业机械的兼职农民开展预防性培训干预。
