This content outlines crucial safety regulations and best practices for agricultural equipment and work environments, focusing on preventing serious injuries and fatalities through protective structures, lockout/tagout procedures, confined space protocols, and ergonomic tool requirements.
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tractor and equipment safety
again the department of industrial relations
relations is
is
primarily responsible for this
and one of the main things is the
rollover protection
structures are rops
these rollover protective structures
are in place and
have been in place since 1976 because
it's dangerous with a tractor you have
you know you're driving next to a canal
or a cut out or something the ground
gives way the next thing the tractor
rolls over and [Music]
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you've killed the driver
and so tractors now have seat belts
and rollover protection structures
structures
uh the rollover protection structure
must protect against sharp edges and
corners inside the cap so you're rolling
over it doesn't do much good to keep you
from being crushed when you're being
sliced to death or stabbed to death by
something inside the cab
it has to be
a reasonably safe environment
while you're rolling
not exactly safe but at least from
from
obvious hazards batteries fuel tanks oil
reservoirs and cooling systems
uh designed in such a way that they're
not going to spill all over you
again you roll over yay i didn't get
crushed but i'm burning alive covered in
oil and gasoline or diesel
uh that's not very good so
again things have to be properly protected
protected
tractor equipped with a canopy to
protect the operator against falling
objects or possibly uh
uh
well yeah i'll just leave it at that
all canopies installed after 1971 must include
include
brush deflection guards so you're going
past a tree or brush it flips out of the
way people have been killed by pushing a
branch out of the way
tractor moves it out of the way with
ease it snaps back and stabs the driver or
or
smacks them upside the head and gives
them a lethal head injury
you need those brush shields
and also intrusion of poles you're
driving along and something comes right
in a branch or a pole or something comes
right in and stabs the driver
rear opening must be covered with woven wire
wire
or clear part polycarbonates laminated
safety glass or some other
material that's going to protect the
driver seat belts are required whenever
you have a rollover protections
protective structure install
now there are exemptions
or exceptions as you might
expect there are certain low profile
tractors used in orchards vineyards or
hop yards
inside of farm buildings or greenhouses and
and
they're not going to roll over
you're in an environment they're
designed in such a way you need it to be open
open and
and
it's operation requires that it be open
and you're not in a rollover environment
in the middle of an orchard
tractors while used with mounted
equipment that is incompatible with rops so
so
occasionally there are pieces of
equipment corn pickers cotton strippers
vegetable pickers and fruit harvesters
of certain types just are incompatible
in their design with a rollover
protective structure
and so there is some exceptions
allowed for certain equipment
tractors when operated as stationary
power or pumping units so they're not
going anywhere
doesn't need a rollover protective
structure if it's parked and you're just
next we have lockout blockout
these are precautions to prevent
accidental re-energization
or re-energizing of electrical systems
or operate operation of mechanical
systems so
a lot of people have died over the decades
decades when
when
they turn off a piece of equipment go
start to repair the equipment somebody
comes in and flips the on switch not
realizing somebody's working on it
or wow these lights aren't working why
aren't these lights working oh the
breaker box and they turn the electric
electricity on
and you just fried your friend who's
working on some electrical thing over on
you've got to have safety precautions in
order to prevent those kinds of accidents
accidents
so it's used on specialized power equipment
equipment um
um
either because of mechanical issues or
electrical issues so you're not sucked
into a machine mechanically if somebody
accidentally turns it on or electrocuted
if somebody accidentally turns it on and
so the these tags are provided
that control the specific hazard and
there are a number of variations on
these tags and
and
the tags in general must cite the reason
for placing the tag
you know maintenance operation or whatever
whatever
uh the name and how to contact the
person placing the tag
and the date the tag was placed you
don't want somebody coming in and oh who
put this oh this is yes this was bob
yesterday they must be done by now turn
on the electricity
um
confined spaces
oh let me just mention it's lockout
that means it's more than just a tag you
generally literally put a pad lock
their power switches on commercial
equipment where there's some sort of a
hole where you can put a lock and you
can no longer
move it so
there are padlocks that are part of this
you don't
accidentally push the switch when
there's a padlock preventing you from
moving the on switch or the activation switch
switch
so that's the lockout part
confined spaces uh again department of
pesticide regulations there are lots of
confined spaces in agriculture
from tanks used to transport
all kinds of products
there's
silos there's
fermentation tanks used for making beer
and wine
all kinds of things that are
perhaps in need of a person going in
momentarily temporarily to clean to weld
something to do some work and then get
the hell out it's not supposed to be
some place you
spend a lot of time
but any space that is combined so
confined so that it take
take
any space that is configured so that an
employee can
bodily enter and perform assigned work
like i said
you're gonna weld you're gonna clean
you're gonna do some task inside
of this conspined space
most confined spaces would be defined
as confined when they have limited or
restricted means for entry or exit you
might have to crawl through some portal
or something to get in they're not
normal rooms or buildings
so tanks vessels silos storage bins
hoppers vaults pits fermentation
fermentation
tanks all kinds of things it is not
designed for continuous employee
occupancy you don't set up your office
in a confined space they're dangerous
there can be
atmosphere conditions where there's co2
levels rise that can kill people and
there can be electrical hazards
strangling hazards
all kinds of things so suffocation from
atmosphere engulfment by liquid or
flowable solid maybe you've seen a
a movie or two where the bad guy gets
buried in grain
grain
inside the silo and these suffocated strangulation
strangulation
constriction crushing lots of things bad
things can happen inside of these
confined spaces even explosions and fires
fires
and you need to know what the heck
you're doing and what the hazards are
under those conditions
a lot of people don't realize that it
doesn't have to be considered explosive
to be explosive
a silo filled with grain dust is highly explosive
explosive
the dust if it's concentrated enough
which would be in a confined space
very likely could be in a confined space
can explode with the slightest spark
there have been numerous accidents in silos
silos and
and
grain mills where dust from flower
manufacturer has made the atmosphere
just dusty enough where a spark sends
the entire factory top boom
in a fireball explosion
killing anybody inside so
so
that kind of hazard isn't just about
confined spaces when you're talking about
about
grain dust
but there's so many different things
that can go wrong so you need to have
written or printed permission to enter a
confined space you
you
need to know what those hazards are
some sort of atmosphere problem
flammable material
airborne combustible dust that i just mentioned
mentioned
atmospheric oxygen levels being um
below 19.5 or above 23.5 percent
below 19.5 provides respiratory risks
normal
explosion safety rules don't apply
normal fire safety rules don't apply
when you hit 23 and a half
everything becomes much much much more flammable
flammable
atmospheric radioactivity not something
we deal with too often in
agriculture but it can happen
uh in certain rare
rare situations
situations
atmosphere dangerous to life or health primarily
primarily
high levels of
carbon dioxide
vapors of hydrocarbons
hydrocarbons
like gasoline vapors things like that
low oxygen those are the things that are generally
generally
most often
seen in agriculture
exception atmospheric concentration is
not capable of causing death
incapacitation impairment or acute
illness so there is an exception in
terms of how you handle a confined space
uh depending on the severity or risks involved
involved
now i'm not going to go through this
list you can hit pause and read through
it but these are the list of things
general requirements involved when
dealing with and working in confined spaces
spaces
it's essentially use your common sense
and knowledge of
your work environment and the hazard
specific to the confined space that
uh how do you protect yourself
definitely respirators are
commonly used in confined spaces
head protection like some sort of helmet
or hard hat eye and face protection hand
protection foot protection all of the
things that you might expect
going into a potentially hazardous workspace
switching gears what about hand weeding
used to be that hand weeding was done
with the short handled hose and now
by law you must have long handled hose
and it took a while for some of the older
older well
well
established workers to get used to the
idea of standing up straight
better for your back better for your
long life and career
to be working in that position but it
took some re-training and it was hard
for some people to relearn
how to do
proper weeding you cannot stoop
down or kneel or squat to do your weeding
weeding
you can't use short-handled tools less
than 48 inches long
instead you use
long-handled tools
that are
lots of resources available
on some of the
organizations the regulatory agencies discussed
discussed
as well as the farm employers
employers
labor service that i've mentioned
other sources for safety issues similar businesses
businesses
talk to people but talk to other
businesses like yours
talk to the equipment manufacturers they
know what is required part of their job
is to help people use their equipment
and they want to help maybe you can get
free training
along with
your equipment that you purchase maybe
training videos and materials that you
can keep
workers compensation carriers they
they don't want to be paying workers
compensation they just want to collect
your premium they want to collect your
money they don't want to pay out their
money to your injured employees so
workers compensation
part of their job is to help you assess risks
risks
train your employees make sure you're
doing everything to keep your employees
from becoming
cost centers
they don't want to spend money
a liability and fire insurance companies
also for the same reason they often can help
help
to understand and train and give you
good information about
safety in your working situation
trade associations
employer groups trade unions
national safety council all of these different
different
potentially great resources for specific
situations to help your company
that
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