Publication: Occupational health and safety for agricultural workers in Thailand: Gaps and recommendations, with a focus on pesticide use
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2015-05-01
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15413772
10482911
10482911
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Mahidol University
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New Solutions. Vol.25, No.1 (2015), 102-120
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Orawan Kaewboonchoo, Pornpimol Kongtip, Susan Woskie Occupational health and safety for agricultural workers in Thailand: Gaps and recommendations, with a focus on pesticide use. New Solutions. Vol.25, No.1 (2015), 102-120. doi:10.1177/1048291115569028 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/36445
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Occupational health and safety for agricultural workers in Thailand: Gaps and recommendations, with a focus on pesticide use
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© The Author(s) 2015. Over 16.7 million workers in Thailand (42 percent of the working population) are engaged in agriculture, disproportionately from the lower socioeconomic strata of Thai society. Most agricultural workers (over 93 percent) work in the informal sector without the protections of regulations or enforcement of labor or health and safety laws or enrollment in a social security system. Although Thailand’s use of herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides is growing, there is little regulation of the sale, use, or application of these potentially toxic chemicals. This paper summarizes the research to date on occupational health and safety for Thai agricultural workers, identifies gaps in pesticide regulations and the current systems for occupational health and safety and social support for Thai agricultural workers, and makes recommendations for future policy and research initiatives to fill the identified gaps.