Applying Safety

Measures While
Working in the Farm
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OBJECTIVES:

• Identify hazard and risk while working in the

farm;
• Distinguish the effect of agricultural hazard on
the health of the farmers;
• Demonstrate different farm safety;
• Value the importance of knowing the different
workplace hazard and how to prevent or control
them.

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 Introduction to the Historical
Background of Occupational Health
Safety
• Bernardino Ramazzini
(1633-1714)
• Considered to be the
father of Occupational
Industrial medicine.
• Published the first
systematic study
connecting the
Environmental hazards of
specific profession to
diseases.
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 Introduction to the Historical
Background of Occupational Health
Safety
The Occupational Safety and
Health (OSHC) was established
through Executive Order No.
307, signed by the late
President Corazon C. Aquino,
on November 4, 1987.

Based on its mandate, the

OSHC champions the cause of
work safety and health in the
Philippines.
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 Definition of Terms
• Safety – the physical or environmental conditions of work
which the prescribed Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
standards and which allow the workers to perform their job
without acceptable exposure to hazard.
• Occupational Safety - the practices related to production
and work process.
• Health – a sound state of the body and mind of the worker
that enables him or her to perform the job normally.
• Sharpening – the process of thinning the edge of the tools
like knife, pruning shears, hedge shears, etc.
• Cleaning – the act or process of removing dirt from tools,
containers and farm facilities.
• Disinfection Chemicals – refers to the chemical used in
cleaning which has the ability to kill microorganisms
especially pathogens.

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 HAZARD AND RISK IN THE
WORKPLACE

• Hazards is an agent which

has the potential to cause
harm
• Agricultural workers
are exposed to a variety of
environmental hazards that
are potentially harmful to
their health and well being
• Farmers and farm
workers suffer from
various type of disease .

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Types of Workplace Hazard

PHYSICAL HAZARDS
CHEMICAL HAZARDS
CHEMICAL/TOXIC HAZARDS
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
BIOLOGICAL HAZARDS
WORK AND
ORGANIZATIONAL HAZARDS
ERGONOMIC HAZARD

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 PHYSICAL HAZARD
Noisy machinery, and noisy working
environments
Excessive vibration from tractors,
Deaths and injuries from falls
Solar radiation resulting in skin cancers

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CHEMICAL/TOXIC HAZARDS
Some common chemical groups
that cause health risk
Fertilizers
Insecticides
Pesticides

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 MECHANICAL HAZARD
– includes electricity, machinery,
equipment, pressure vessels, dangerous
goods, forklifts, cranes, hoist.

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 BIOLOGICAL HAZARD
Agricultural workers are at risk from a wide
range of work-related diseases and
disorders.
These range from diseases caught from
birds and animals to asthma and other lung
diseases from biologically
contaminated dusts.

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 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
Agricultural work can also create
environmental hazards beyond the immediate
workplace.
polluted water and soil, as well as through
consuming local crops, especially when this
is linked to poor diet and malnutrition

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ORGANIZATIONAL HAZARD
These include hazards that are caused by
poor work organization such as
• badly organized shift work and working
hours,
• excessive overtime,
• lone working,
• lack of control over work.

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 ERGONOMIC HAZARD
an anatomical, physiological, and psychological
demands on the worker, such as repetitive and forceful
movements, vibration, extreme temperatures, and
awkward postures arising from improper work
methods and improperly designed workstations, tools,
and equipment.

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 The following factors may increase risk of
injury or illness for farm workers

1. Age – injury rates are highest

among children aged 15 and under
and adults over 65
2. Equipment and Machinery –
most farms accidents are facilities
involve machinery. Proper machine
guarding and doing equipment
maintenance according to
manufacturer’s recommendations
can help prevent accidents.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:

VEHICLE HAZARDS
In 2011, vehicular accidents caused
close to half (276) of the 570
fatalities in agriculture. Injuries
from vehicular incidents are serious
and debilitating to farm activities.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
HEAT
“HEAT ILLNESS CAN BE DEADLY”.
Every year, thousands of workers
become sick from exposure to heat, and
some even die. These illnesses and
deaths are preventable.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
PREVENTION
Heat-related illnesses, while potentially
deadly, are easily preventable. When
working in hot conditions, remember
"WATER, REST, SHADE."

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
LADDERS AND FALLS
Deaths and injuries from falls remain a
major hazard for farmworkers.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:

GRAIN BINS AND SILOS

While safety issues surrounding grain bins and
silos are sometimes overlooked on farms, they
pose many dangers. Farmworkers are exposed to
suffocation or engulfment hazards when working
with grain bins and silos, as well as grain dust
exposures and explosions. Suffocation is a leading
cause of death in grain storage bins.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
UNSANITARY CONDITIONS
The lack of drinking water, sanitation facilities
and/or hand washing facilities can lead to many
health effects. Farmworkers may suffer heat
stroke and heat exhaustion from an insufficient
intake of potable water, urinary tract infections
due to urine retention from inadequate
availability of toilets, agrichemical poisoning
resulting from lack of hand washing facilities,
and infectious and other communicable diseases
from microbial and parasitic exposures.

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
Spraying Chemicals
Examples of Chemical Hazard:
• Spraying in a strong wind and the spray drifting over a
dam or the farmhouse
• Washing spray equipment and the water running into
open drains, collecting in puddles, or running into
stockyards or dam.
• Containers or chemicals left lying around. Empty
containers lying in a heap.

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 Some ways you can reduce the risk of
hazards from chemicals are:

• Use personal protective equipment such as

respirators, waterproof clothes, rubber gloves,
and waterproof footwear.
• Make sure chemicals are safely stored and
cupboards locked.
• Never spray chemicals on days when there is high
wind.
• Know first aid procedures
• Keep list of all hazardous substances used on the
farm

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 AGRICULTURAL HAZARDS
WORKERS EXPOSED TO:
HAZARDOUS EQUIPMENT AND MACHINERY

Farmworkers routinely use knives, hoes, and

other cutting tools; work on ladders; or use
machinery in their shops. However, these simple
tools can be hazardous and have the potential for
causing severe injuries when used or maintained
improperly.

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 Hazards Associated with
Equipment

Although there are many different types of farm

machinery, they tend to have similar
characteristics and parts, such as:

• cutting edges,
• gears,
• chains,
• levers,
• revolving shafts
• rotating blades

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Learning Task 1
Let’s watch this video presentation “Safety and
Health on the Farm”.

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Let’s Analyze the video”

1. What is the importance of farm safety?

2. How farmers can protect themselves from
these hazards?
3. Why is personal protective equipment is
important in farming?

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Learning task 2 -Spot the Hazard
Encircle the hazards present in the picture.
Give possible control measures for each hazard to
prevent the risk.

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 VOCABULARY
Hazard is the potential for harm
or an adverse effect (for example, to
people health effect, to organizations as
property or equipment losses, or to the
environment).
 VOCABULARY
Risk on the other hand, is a
measure of the possibility of a specific
harmful effect in given circumstances.
It is very important to know the
difference between a hazard and a risk.
 VOCABULARY
Occupational Health and
Safety (OHS) focuses primarily on
protecting employees in the workplace from
accidents, injuries, and exposure to harmful
substances