Kingston General Health Research Institute, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
J Rural Health. 2022 Jun;38(3):527-536. doi: 10.1111/jrh.12602. Epub 2021 Jun 8.
Cultures of safety in farm work settings are under the authority of a responsible owner-operator, who establishes rules, attitudes, and behaviors for farm work practices. This novel analysis provides new evidence to show that risks that can lead to injury and are commonly practiced on Canadian farms are indeed transferred between generations.
Baseline data were provided by representatives from eligible and consenting farms (n = 589) in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, during the first quarter of 2013. Mailed questionnaires were sent to participating farms and completed by a single respondent. Questionnaires included scaled assessments of hazards and safety practices by farm operators, and young workers on each farm. Descriptive and multiple regression analyses were used to examine relationships between farm owner-operator risks and safety practices and those reported for the young workers.
Graphical descriptive analyses showed that as farm owner-operator risks increased, so did those reported for children and young workers. Similarly, as farm owner-operator safe work practices increased, young worker hazards decreased, albeit more modestly. The young worker hazard scale increased by 0.20 (95% CI: 0.10-0.30) points, and decreased by 0.08 (95% CI: -0.016 to -0.000) points for each one-point increase in the owner-operator hazard and safe work practices scales, respectively.
Occupational health and safety risks and protections experienced on farms appear to be transferred between generations. This suggests the need to target farm owner-operators, the responsible authority on the farm, as a focus of primary prevention strategies aimed at injury risks to children and young workers.
农业工作场所的安全文化由负责任的所有者-经营者负责，他们为农业工作实践制定规则、态度和行为。这项新的分析提供了新的证据，表明可能导致伤害且在加拿大农场普遍存在的风险确实在代际之间转移。
在 2013 年第一季度，萨斯喀彻温省符合条件并同意参与的农场（n=589）的代表提供了基线数据。邮寄给参与农场的问卷由农场经营者和每个农场的年轻工人单独完成。问卷包括对农场经营者和年轻工人的危险和安全实践进行评估的量表。采用描述性和多元回归分析来检验农场所有者-经营者的风险和安全实践与年轻工人报告的风险和安全实践之间的关系。
图形描述性分析表明，随着农场所有者-经营者风险的增加，儿童和年轻工人报告的风险也随之增加。同样，随着农场所有者-经营者安全工作实践的增加，年轻工人的危险也减少了，尽管幅度较小。年轻工人危险量表增加了 0.20（95%CI：0.10-0.30）点，而所有者-经营者危险和安全工作实践量表每增加 1 点，年轻工人危险量表分别减少 0.08（95%CI：-0.016 至-0.000）点。
农场中经历的职业健康和安全风险和保护似乎在代际之间转移。这表明需要将农场所有者-经营者作为主要预防策略的重点，因为他们是负责农场的权威人士，目的是针对儿童和年轻工人的伤害风险。
