Other Dissemination Events and Meetings:
September 3. 2021 Workshop
Sacurima CA16123 Online/in person MC Workshop, Lisbon
Meeting program Sacurima 2021 Lisbon September
Meeting Presentations:
SACURIMA workshop WG3 presentation 20210903
Spreading the message of safety culture and risk management among farmers
Agricultural safety culture case examples for making farms safer place to work
May 2021
Sacurima CA16123 Online MC Workshop Meeting, May 27, Helsinki. Meeting notes
Biosystems Engineering Conference 2021, 5-7.5.2021, Tartu, Estonia. Presentations by Sacurima COST Action members:
Merisalu, E. 2021. Trends on work accidents in agriculture in EU countries.
John McNamara, J. 2021. Promoting Farmer occupational safety and health (OSH) services through Extension.
Leppälä, J., Karttunen, J., Van Den Broucke, S. and Rautiainen, R. 2021. Development of Farm Safety Culture in Finland.
April 2021
Towards safer farms – Understanding farm safety cultures – BeSafe Research Seminar (Online)
April 27th 2020, BeSAFE Project, Teagasc. Program.
International Symposium on Work in Agriculture 29 March – 1 April 2021, Clermond-Ferrand, France. The Symposium brought together an international community around issues and future of work in agriculture.
September 2020
Prof. Laura Girdžiūtė, Vytautas Magnus University: Presentation of Sacurima – CA 16123: Safety Culture and Risk Management in Agriculture in International Conference of “Possibilities and perspectives for common research projects for studies and science”, 29th September, 2020, on Vytautas Magnus University Agriculture Academy, Vilnius, Lithuania.
June 2020
Sacurima Working Group 5 organized Online Policy Webinar: Policy Recommendations for Improving Safety Culture and Risk Management in Agriculture (COST Action CA16123)
Host: Risto Rautiainen, Finland – Sacurima Action Chair
Moderator: Pat Griffin, Ireland – Sacurima Communication Manager
November 2019
Stephan Van den Broucke, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. Psychological Sciences Research Institute. Presentation: Evaluation of safety culture in agriculture. In: 6th SAYKAD CONGRESS – International Health Related Quality of Life Meeting Izmir, 21-23 November 2019.
October 2019
Call for major Policy Change in the Revised CAP for Agriculture. Sacurima Working Group 5 meeting with EU Policy Makers, 14-15.10. 2019 in Brussels, Belgium.
August 2019
Ramos Athena, UNMC, USA International collaboration to improve safety culture and risk management in vulnerable populations in agriculture. Western Regional Ag Health and Safety Conference (August 2019; Seattle, Washington). Poster
May 2019
Lundqvist Peter, SLU, Sweden. Health & Safety in European Agriculture – organization, legislation and support. • 39th International Colloquium of the International Section of the ISSA on Prevention in Agriculture, May 15-17 2019. Cordoba, Spain. Poster
McNamara John, TEAGASC, Ireland. Farm Health and Safety Adoption In Ireland through Engineering and Behaviour. Key note speech. BSE 2019: International Conference on Biosystems Engineering 2019. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Institute of Technology. Tartu, Estonia, May 8-10.
September 2018
Safety Culture and Risk Management in Agricluture (Sacurima)- Conference Session in Nordic Meeting on Agricultural Occupational Health & Safety. 13.9.2018, Hurdal, Norway. NMAOHS-Norway-Program-2018
May 2018
J. Leppälä, M. Jakob, E. Merisalu, R. Rautiainen. Quality of EU statistics on work accidents in agriculture – a country comparison. In: BSE 2018: Biosystems Engineering Conference 2018 Tartu 9-11.5. 2018.
April 2018
McNamara John, TEAGASC, Ireland. Farm safety education: a chance to improve safety and health literacy among … International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH) -Dublin May 2018. ICOH SACURIMA poster
International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH) -Dublin May 2018
E U Cost Action SACURIMA Vice Chair Dr John McNamara participated in the triennial International Congress on Occupational Health (ICOH)which took place in Dublin, Ireland in May. At the congress he presented a poster on the work of EU COST SACURIMA while a follow-up Abstract was published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Accompanying photo: Dr John McNamara with Professor Kazultaka Kogi, former President of ICOH and ILO.
E U Cost Action SACURIMA Vice Chair Dr John McNamara participated as an invited panellist in the EU Agri Research Conference: Innovating for the Future of Farming and Rural Communities held in Brussels , Belgium on 2-3 May 2018. The Conference considered how to shape the future of agriculture research and innovation after 2020. Dr McNamara suggested the need for greater inclusion of farmer related occupational health and safety in future agri-research programmes.
John McNamara (left) with EU Commission Policy Coordinator Mr Luis Vivas- Alegre
January 2018
Colosio, C. Sacurima COST Action. In: International Section of the ISSA on Prevention in Agriculture 30 th January 2018, Warsaw, Poland.
October 2017
Rautiainen, R. & Leppälä, J. Safety Culture and Risk Management in Agriculture (SACURIMA). In: ICOH Symposium Education in OSH, Zagreb, 28.10. 2017.
August 2017
Leppälä Jarkko, LUKE, Finland. Sacurima COST Action: Towards Better Safety Culture in Agriculture. In: Joy at work – NES 2017, August 19-23, Lund, Sweden.
