Investigation The Awareness of Farmers on Agricultural Health and Safety Rules About Pesticides in Sanliurfa/Turkey

Hasan Sahin and Zehra Anli
Additional contact information
Hasan Sahin: Department of Agricultural Machinery Vocational High School of Technical Sciences, Sanlıurfa, Turkey
Zehra Anli: Harran University Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Sanlıurfa, Turkey

European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research, 2019, vol. 4, issue 6, 140-144

Abstract: In this study, it is aimed to determine the awareness level and educational status of agricultural workers in Sanl?urfa countryside regarding agricultural occupational health and safety. The survey area is located in Sanl?urfa and the sample is composed of 140 farmers from 38 randomly selected villages. 30.88% of the farmers who were surveyed stated that there was redness and burning in the eyes after agricultural spraying. According to the results of the survey; 67.94% of the farmers did not receive agricultural spraying training, 61.36% did not receive first aid training and 72% of them did not receive occupational health and safety training. A statistically significant difference has been observed between the chi-square test for comparing the rates of problems after using the pesticide (P

Keywords: Agriculture; Health; Safety; Pesticides (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejeng/article/view/61373 Abstract page (text/html)
https://eu-opensci.org/index.php/ejeng/article/download/61373/12141 Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:epw:ejeng0:v:4:y:2019:i:6:id:61373

DOI: 10.24018/ejeng.2019.4.6.1373

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research from European Open Science
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Support ().