THE WEST JUTLAND STUDY OF FARM ACCIDENTS - A MODEL FOR PREVENTION

This article summarizes the main elements of the West Jutland Study on the Prevention of Farm Accidents, that was presented in four separate papers al the 1996 Occupational Injury Symposium in Sydney, Australia . The objective of the study is to develop and conduct an intervention on the basis of an initial investigation of risk factors, aimed at re ducing the number of occupational accidents in a randomly selected, re presentative sample of Danish farms. The article focuses on the underl ying model used in the study, the methods and design employed, and the form and content of the intervention that is currently underway. Resu lts will be presented at a later date. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.