What are the economic impact of unsafe practices on yourself and others
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The agriculture industry has been identified as a priority area by the HSC/E due its high rate of fatal and major injury accidents (Revitalising Health and Safety Strategy Statement, June 2000). Agriculture has the highest fatal accident rate of any other sector and this rate continues to rise, which is of particular concern in an industry where the workforce is declining year on year. The farmers most at risk are the self-employed, although as with all areas of industry small businesses are particularly hard for the HSE to target through the usual contact methods such as interventions with intermediaries. In order to understand more about the influences on safe and unsafe farming practices BOMEL was commissioned to explore the source and strength of these influences with two distinct farmer groups (the self-employed and farm employers/employees) using the Influence Network technique. With a better understanding of these influences HSE will be able to design interventions appropriate to the target group that will have maximum impact across the sector. The results of this study will also provide a benchmark against which the sector team can compare their own observations of the critical influences. The Agriculture Sector In order to put the current study in context, a brief review of the agriculture sector was undertaken. The total area of agricultural land in the UK is approximately 18.4 million hectares (DEFRA, 2003). UK farming is particularly varied and most regions are home to all types of British farming. The South West is the largest and most rural region and is dominated by livestock farming. In terms of the workforce, there are approximately 550,000 people in agriculture although this figure is steadily declining as people gradually leave agriculture due to the poor economic climate and in more recent years crises such as BSE and foot and mouth disease. The farmers that remain have to constantly diversify their businesses in order to stay afloat and still money remains tight in an increasingly competitive food market. The agricultural safety record currently shows considerable room for improvement. HSE RIDDOR data indicates that in the year 2002/03 there were 9.5 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers which is an increase compared with 9.2 in 2001/02 (HSC, 2003). Numbers of major injury and over 3-day injury accidents are also increasing although the high level of under reporting of non-fatal accidents suggests the figures could be even higher (HSC/LFS, 2002). The Influence Network Approach In June 2002 the HSE sector team took part in an Influence Network workshop to explore the possible underlying causes on the high number of farming fatalities.
Answer:
The impact of behaviour can cause harm to himself or herself and the people around him, and the cost of injury and death is high. A person may not get a job as he or she will have a criminal record. A mother may need care for her whole life. The father may need a disability grant.
Explanation:
The effects of unsafe behaviour are as follows:
Physical: Anyone near the person can get physically hurt by the unsafe behaviour.
Emotional: A vast emotional reaction can be expected by unsafe behaviour, including rage, disappointment or shock or loss of spirituality.
Social: this person may be punished and may go to jail. They will be called assassins. Their parents will be embarrassed and upset.
Economics: The impact of behaviour can cause harm to himself or herself and the people around him, and the cost of injury and death is high. A person may not get a job as he or she will have a criminal record. A mother may need care for her whole life. The father may need a disability grant.
Politics: The government will bear the brunt of spending taxpayers' money to care for the injured, and paying students for prison facilities. That money could be used for education or housing.
Environment: petrol from a car into a ditch. It will end up in the river and kill fish and plants, and kill birds and animals that are poisonous.
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