title: [Physical exertion of agricultural workers with reference to work in private farms--consequences for occupational health services].
abstract: In terms of social-insurance legislation, the small-scale private work of cooperative agricultural and horticultural workers has the same status as their cooperative-farm work. Therefore, it must be included in occupational-hygiene analyses for the evaluation of the physical work load. Continuous heart-rate measurements were carried out in 64 people-workers operating can-to-can or pipeline milking facilities, agricultural-machinery mechanics, female horticultural workers and tractor or harvester drivers-covering a total of 138 working days. Only considering the cooperative-farm work-load, it is only the milking-facility workers whose work can be evaluated as hard. Including the additional private agricultural work too, the work of the female horticultural workers also must be evaluated as hard, and that of the agricultural-machinery mechanics as moderately hard. In the case of the tractor and harvester drivers, the private small-scale agricultural work in occupational-health terms is regarded as a favourable counter-balance to the hypokinesia involved in driving.
authors.forename: W W
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Jürgens
mesh_terms: D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D000383:Agriculture; D000822:Animal Husbandry; D003612:Dairying; D005260:Female; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D005082:Physical Exertion; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Zur Beanspruchung der Werktätigen in der Landwirtschaft unter Berücksichtigung der Arbeiten in der individuellen Wirtschaft--Konsequenzen für die arbeitsmedizinische Dispensairebetreuung.