Injuries Caused By Animal Contact İn Dairy Farms And Prevention Ways

The systematic work carried out in order to protect from the health hazards caused by various reasons at the workplaces during the execution of the works is called occupational health and safety In accordance with the Law No. 6331 on Occupational Health and Safety, the obligation to perform a risk assessment of all workplaces has started as of January 1, 2012. In this respect, dairy cattle farms have a high risk factor. The hardware and technological infrastructure of the enterprises, ergonomic conditions in terms of employee and animal management, the skill level of the personnel, the job description and organization of the works, the routine controls, the operating environment conditions are linked with the production stages. 98% of occupational accidents and occupational diseases can be prevented considering that awareness is a very important sateg of the prevention. The number of people employed by economic activity decreased by 71 thousand people in the agricultural sector, 60 thousand in the industrial sector, 3 thousand in the construction sector and 49 thousand people in the service sector. 1.444.000 enterprises (284.000 beef, 1.160.000 breeder) are present in our country. 72.5% of the cattle breeders were 10 head and six (27% of the number of animals), 10-49% of them were 25% (47% of the number of animals), and 2.5% of the number of animals (50%). 26 of them have the number of animals (Anonymous, 2018). People tend to move away from agriculture, in particular from livestock. In the last 40 years, the rural population has fallen below 20% from 40% and the rural population is getting older. This situation constitutes a significant risk in terms of production increase and sustainability in livestock sector. According to accident reports, agricultural machinery, tractors (18%) and animals (17%) often cause accidents. The sum of hand tools and power tools causes accidents as much as other machines (14%). In this study, a survey study was conducted in order to determine the risk factors of animal contact-related injury in animal husbandry enterprise employees