What is it about?

Occupational exposures to agricultural dust by Western Australian wheat-belt farmers

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Why is it important?

The study found that WA farmers and farm workers can be exposed to high personal dust concentrations that exceed the AIOH recommended guideline values when seeding.

Perspectives

Future research should look towards educating farm owners to placing less reliance on their experience and to providing workers with more information on health, safety.

Krassi Rumchev
Curtin University

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This page is a summary of: Occupational exposures to agricultural dust by Western Australian wheat-belt farmers during seeding operations, Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, September 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/15459624.2018.1521973.
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