Ag Health and Safety Alliance™, Greenville, U.S.A.
Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, U.S.A.
J Agromedicine. 2023 Jan;28(1):18-27. doi: 10.1080/1059924X.2022.2141408. Epub 2022 Nov 2.
The number of agricultural fatalities and injuries related to agricultural quad bike use has risen substantially in the last two decades. Safe engineering design features such as crush protection and roll bars have proven potential to lessen the burden of injury but have traditionally not been included in many quad bike safety training programs. The aim of this study was to survey more than 700 young adults working in U.S. and Canadian agriculture to examine self-reported quad bike safety behaviors and awareness of quad bike safety design engineering features. We found that U.S. males continue to be at higher risk for quad bike-rollover incidents when compared to other groups. Even when accounting for other factors such as age and country, we found that participants who reported youth occupational quad bike use (≤14 years old) were up to 200% more likely to allow extra riders and up to 489% more likely to not wear a helmet when compared to participants who reported beginning occupational quad bike use in adulthood. These findings support the Agricultural Youth Work Guideline (AYWG) for occupational quad bike use at age 16. Less than 20% of young adults working in agriculture were aware of safe design features such as wide frames, stability ratings, crush protection devices, and accessories made by the original equipment manufacturer. There is tremendous need to educate the future agricultural workforce about the importance of choosing quad bikes with safer design features.
在过去的二十年中，与农用四轮摩托车使用相关的农业伤亡人数显著增加。经过实践证明，诸如防挤压和防翻滚等安全工程设计特点能够降低受伤的严重程度，但传统上，这些特点并未纳入许多四轮摩托车安全培训计划中。本研究旨在对 700 多名在美国和加拿大从事农业工作的年轻人进行调查，以调查他们自我报告的四轮摩托车安全行为以及对四轮摩托车安全设计工程特点的认知。我们发现，与其他群体相比，美国男性在四轮摩托车翻车事故中仍然面临更高的风险。即使考虑到年龄和国家等其他因素，我们发现与报告在成年后开始职业四轮摩托车使用的参与者相比，报告在青少年时期（≤14 岁）从事职业四轮摩托车使用的参与者允许额外乘客的可能性要高出 200%，不戴头盔的可能性要高出 489%。这些发现支持《农业青年工作准则》（AYWG）中关于 16 岁开始从事职业四轮摩托车使用的规定。不到 20%的农业工作年轻人了解安全设计特点，例如宽车架、稳定性评级、防挤压装置以及原始设备制造商生产的配件。非常有必要对未来的农业劳动力进行教育，使其了解选择具有更安全设计特点的四轮摩托车的重要性。
