Health hazards face by agriculture workers

1. HEALTH HAZARDS FACE BY
AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
PRESENTED BY
PREETI KUMARI
BHM 2nd yr 3rd sem

2. CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 TYPED OF HAZARDS
 PHYSICAL HAZARDS
 TOXIC HAZARDS
 RESPIRATORY HAZARDS
 MECHNACAL HAZARDS
 BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
 ENVIROMENTAL HAZARDS
 WORK ORGANIZATION HAZARDS
 HAZARDS AND RISK
 EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS ON HEALTH
 PREVENTION OF HAZARDS
 HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION TECHNIQUE
 CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
• Hazards is an agent which has
the potential to cause harm
• Agricultural workers are
exposed to a variety of
environmental hazards that are
potentially harmful to their
health and well being
• Farmers and farm workers
suffer from various type of
disease .

4. TYPES OF HEALTH HAZARDS
 PHYSICAL HAZARDS
 CHEMICAL HAZARDS
 TOXIC HAZARDS
 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
 BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
 WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL
HAZARDS

5. PHYSICAL HAZARDS
 Noisy machinery, and noisy
working environments
 Excessive vibration from
tractors,
 Deaths and injuries from falls
 Solar radiation resulting in
skin cancers

6. TOXIC HAZARDS
• Some common chemical
groups that cause health risk
• Fertilizers
• Insecticides
• Pesticides

7. MECHANICAL HAZARDS
• Poorly designed and/or
guarded agricultural
machinery
• major cause of
accidents. Injuries from
cutting
• tools are another major
risk.

8. BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
• Agricultural workers are at risk
from a wide range of work related
diseases and disorders.
• These range from diseases caught
from birds and
animals to asthma and other lung
diseases from
• biologically contaminated dusts.

9. ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
 Agricultural work can also
create environmental hazards
beyond the immediate
workplace.
 polluted water and soil,
 as well as through consuming
local crops,
 especially when this is linked to
poor diet and malnutrition

10. ORGANIZATIONAL HAZARDS
• These include hazards that are
caused by
• poor work organization such as
• badly organized shift work and
working hours,
• excessive overtime,
• lone working,
• lack of control over work.

11. HAZARDS & RISKS
 The hazard associated with power-
driven agricultural
 machinery might be getting trapped
or entangled by moving parts.
 The risk may be high if guards are
not fitted and workers are in close
proximity to the machine.
 If however, the machine is properly
guarded, regularly maintained and
repaired by competent staff, then the
risk will be lower.

12. PREVENTION OF HAZARDS
• Ask whether the hazard can be eliminated.
• remove the need to use a toxic pesticide by using
organic
• farming methods
• If the hazard cannot be prevented or eliminated,
consider
• substitution with a less risky process or substance
in the
• case of chemicals

13. EFFECT OF AGRICULTURE HAZARDS ON
HEALTH
• CANCER
• SKIN DISEASE

14. HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
• Body mapping
• Hazard mapping
• Involving members when carrying out HS&E
checks
• Health surveys
• Information exchange in meetings and
informal discussions

15. CONCLUSION
Agriculture industry is one of the essential and the
important profession as well as its also the dangerous
profession
.In the farming industry there are various hazards which
affected the farmers .
To avoid this type of situations need to some safety
elements