Occupational Health Hazards of Thai Rice Farmers: The case study of Rice Farmers in Ban Du Sub -district, Muang District, Chiang Rai Province

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the occupational health hazards of rice farmers. A cross-sectional was completed a stratified random sample of 221 rice farmers. Measurement tool, the questionnaires used to survey the demographic characteristics and occupational health hazards which the reliability was 0.90. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, average and standard deviation. Findings revealed that the most occupational health hazards were the process of harvesting the rice, followed by the process of maintaining the crop, the process of planting rice and the process of preparing the area for rice cultivation respectively. When considering the process that most of risk factors were physical risk factors in the process of preparing the area for rice cultivation. One of the most of ergonomics and psychosocial risk factors were in the process of planting rice, the process of maintaining the crop and the process of harvesting the rice. Ergonomics and psychosocial among rice farmers is one of the most important to aware the problems and design appropriate interventions.