Difficult Decisions: A Simulation That Illustrates Cost Effectiveness of Farm Safety Behaviors

Henry P. Cole, Pamela S. Kidd, Steven G. Isaacs, Mark Parshall, Ted Scharf

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAgricultural Health and Safety
Subtitle of host publicationRecent Advances
Pages117-124
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781000523928
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2024

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 1997 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Economics
  • Farming
  • Occupational injury prevention
  • Planning
  • Safety

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • General Medicine
  • General Business, Management and Accounting
  • General Engineering
  • General Social Sciences
  • General Environmental Science

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