TY - JOUR
T1 - Difficult decisions
T2 - A simulation that illustrates cost effectiveness of farm safety behaviors
AU - Cole, Henry P.
AU - Kidd, Pamela S.
AU - Isaacs, Steven G.
AU - Parshall, Mark
AU - Scharf, Ted
PY - 1997/8/8
Y1 - 1997/8/8
N2 - A paper-and-pencil simulation exercise depicts the difficult decisions of a farm family as they struggle to work safely while trying to expand farm size, maintain production, cope with labor shortages, bad weather and equipment problems. Response patterns of 34 persons mimic choices of other farmers faced with real-life decision alternatives like those depicted in the exercise. Farmers judged the exercise as authentic and useful for teaching them relationships among workload, stress, economics, safety, and injury prevention as an integral part of farm planning and management. Many reported that the exercise convinced them to make safety a higher priority.
AB - A paper-and-pencil simulation exercise depicts the difficult decisions of a farm family as they struggle to work safely while trying to expand farm size, maintain production, cope with labor shortages, bad weather and equipment problems. Response patterns of 34 persons mimic choices of other farmers faced with real-life decision alternatives like those depicted in the exercise. Farmers judged the exercise as authentic and useful for teaching them relationships among workload, stress, economics, safety, and injury prevention as an integral part of farm planning and management. Many reported that the exercise convinced them to make safety a higher priority.
KW - Agriculture
KW - Economics
KW - Farming
KW - Occupational injury prevention
KW - Planning
KW - Safety
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U2 - 10.1300/J096v04n01_14
DO - 10.1300/J096v04n01_14
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:60349120374
SN - 1059-924X
VL - 4
SP - 117
EP - 124
JO - Journal of Agromedicine
JF - Journal of Agromedicine
IS - 1-2
ER -
