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Preventing and Investigating Horse-Related Human Injury and Fatality in Work and Non-Work Equestrian Environments: A Consideration of the Workplace Health and Safety Framework

Chapman, Meredith, Thompson, Kirrilly·2016·Animals
DOI 10.3390/ani6050033PMC PMC4880850
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It has been suggested that one in five riders will be injured due to a fall from a horse, resulting in severe head or torso injuries. Attempts to reduce injury have primarily focussed on low level risk controls, such as helmets. In comparison, risk mitigation in high risk workplaces and sports is directed at more effective and preventative controls like training, consultation, safe work procedures, fit for purpose equipment and regular Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) monitoring. However, there has been no systematic consideration of the risk-reduction benefits of applying a WHS framework to reducing horse-related risks in workplaces, let alone competition or leisure contexts. In this article, we discuss the different dimensions of risk during human–horse interaction: the risk itself, animal, human and environmental factors and their combinations thereof. We consider the potential of the WHS framework as a tool for reducing (a) situation-specific hazards, and (b) the risks inherent in and arising from human–horse interactions. Whilst most—if not all—horses are unpredictable, the majority of horse-related injuries should be treated as preventable. The article concludes with a practical application of WHS to prevent horse-related injury by discussing effective evidence-based guidelines and regulatory monitoring for equestrian sectors. It suggests that the WHS framework has significant potential not only to reduce the occurrence and likelihood of horse-related human accident and injury, but to enable systematic accident analysis and investigation of horse-related adverse events.

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Authors
Chapman, M., & Thompson, K.
Affiliations
The Appleton Institute, Central Queensland University, 44 Greenhill Road, Wayville, SA 5034, Australia
ORCID
Thompson, Kirrilly
Venue
Animals
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2016-05-06
Volume
6
Issue
5
Pages
33
ISSN
2076-2615
DOI
10.3390/ani6050033
PMC
PMC4880850
Cited by
27
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Language
en
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creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)

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