Innovations, Engineering, Technologies and Best Practices for Ensuring Work Safety in Agriculture

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue (SI) of AgriEngineering, which collects the latest research in the agricultural engineering sector related to safety, health and welfare in agriculture. Agricultural workers are exposed to a number of specific risks that lead to accidents and professional diseases, particularly related (but not only) to the use of machinery and equipment. In recent years, many innovative technologies and solutions have become available, and they can be conveniently applied to reduce these risks, maintaining the economic and environmental sustainability of crops. The SI explores the most important challenges faced by the agricultural engineering sector and offer innovative solutions to promote efficient agricultural practices and social sustainability.

Potential topics include a wide area of subjects, such as assistive technologies, work related musculo-skeletal disorders, work organisation, exposure to physical agents, microclimate safety, and vehicles stability and navigation research.

In this SI, we seek to demonstrate that adopting the latest technologies will allow producers to increase safety, reducing health and social costs and maintaining the productivity.

The SI will be a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers and stakeholders, inspiring them to work together to create a more sustainable future for agriculture.

The SI focuses primarily on original research papers across its whole scope, but also welcomes state-of-the-art review papers and first-hand case histories.

Dr. Marcello Biocca
Prof. Dr. Massimo Cecchini
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. AgriEngineering is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• assistive technologies
• safety for emerging robotics and autonomous agriculture
• WMSDs work related musculo-skeletal disorders
• work organisation
• safety health and welfare in mechanization
• innovative safe vehicles and machinery
• noise, vibration, dust
• environment and microclimate safety
• ROPS and vehicles stability.