Reducing risk of injuries on dairy farms

A new study shows that injuries on farms are more likely to occur through interaction with large livestock than any other operations, and that the risk of injury on cattle farms is 3 times higher than on pig farms. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous working environments globally, according to Noha Mahmoud, a postgraduate researcher from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and Aarhus University. As part of her PhD research project, Mahmoud has developed a method to estimate the risk of i