Could Wearables Protect Youth and Children on Farms?
Could Wearables Protect Youth and Children on Farms?
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可穿戴设备可以保护农场里的青少年和儿童吗？
DOI：
10.1080/1059924x.2022.2140735
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Weichelt, Bryan P.
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作者：
Schwebel, David C;Hasan, Ragib;Weichelt, Bryan P.
农业环境中造成伤害和死亡的危险是众所周知的，对儿童的影响尤为严重。可靠的数据表明，大约每3天就有一名美国儿童死于与农业有关的事故1，另有50名儿童受伤严重，每天都需要去急诊室。此外，十多年来，有记录的青年农业工人死亡人数超过了所有其他行业的总和，15-17岁的青少年占所有职业死亡人数的81%。在农业环境中保护儿童和青年工人安全的最突出的传统策略是监督（成年人仔细观察儿童和青年工人）和隔离（儿童远离危险环境，如动物围栏、机械、水池和粮食储存区，用物理围栏/障碍；青年工人远离他们没有接受过安全培训的任务）。虽然这些策略在正确实施时是有效的，但对降低伤害风险或发生率的影响很小，这主要是由于持续可靠地实施和执行这些策略所面临的挑战。我们建议使用可穿戴技术作为替代方案。使用自动将儿童和青少年从危险的农业风险中分离出来的技术可能比依赖人类行为更有效。举个熟悉的例子，郊区的狗被电子系统“围起来”，如果它们试图逃离围栏，就会受到电击。我们从来没有想过要操纵这样一个让我们的孩子震惊的系统，但可穿戴技术是否可以提供一个类似的解决方案
The hazards for injury and death in agricultural settings are widely known, as are the risks that disproportionately affect children. Reputable data suggest one American child dies in an agriculturerelated incident about every 3 days 1 and another 50 suffer injuries serious enough to require an emergency room visit daily. 2 Further, documented youth agricultural worker fatalities have exceeded those in all other industries combined for over a decade, with teenagers aged 15–17 making up 81% of all occupational fatalities. 3 The most prominent traditional strategies to protect safety of children and young workers in agricultural settings are supervision (adults carefully watch children and young workers) and separation (children kept away from dangerous environments like animal pens, machinery, pools, and grain storage areas by physical fences/barriers; youth workers kept away from tasks they are not trained to engage in safely). Although effective when properly implemented, these strategies have had minimal impact on lowering injury risks or rates, largely due to challenges of consistently and reliably implementing and enforcing the strategies.We propose use of wearable technology as an alternative. Use of technology that automates separation of children and youth from dangerous agricultural risks may be more effective than reliance on human behavior. As a familiar example, suburban dogs are “fenced” with electronic systems that shock them if they try to escape the perimeter. We’d never dream of rigging such a system that shocked our children, but could wearable technology offer a comparable solution