Financial costs implicated in farmers' risk taking

Financial costs implicated in farmers' risk taking

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-06-financial-implicated-farmers.html

Around 3 fatal farm-worker accidents are reported each month in the UK alone, a statistic that prompted Industrial Psychology researcher Dr. Amy Irwin to investigate farm safety and how farmers approach risk.

"Farmers are a unique group of workers in that they often grow up, and learn how to manage tasks, on a farm. Farming is a high risk occupation that involves long hours, weather dependent tasks, a lot of lone working and management of multiple competing demands".