0:24 it never happened remember that
0:26 all of your pesticide
0:28 records all of your training records all
0:31 of everything it's written down
0:35 employees signed what they did
0:37 to document that they actually went
0:40 through the training etc etc you fixed
0:43 something you did proper maintenance on
0:46 something everything is written down or
0:50 in a court of law it never happened
0:53 so heat illness this is an important
0:57 subset of worker safety and
0:58 and
1:01 in sub chapter seven of the general
1:04 industrial safety orders group two
1:07 safe practices and personal protection
1:10 personal safety devices and safeguards
1:14 so you drill down you can read the um
1:16 um
1:18 california government codes
1:19 codes
1:22 to look at how they deal with heat illness
1:24 illness
1:28 and heat illness
1:30 is something that you need to have a
1:32 plan for
1:34 what happens when it's too warm
1:36 in the field
1:37 how do you provide
1:40 adequate water
1:42 clean cool drinking water to your workers
1:43 workers
1:47 how do you provide proper breaks
1:50 and proper shade areas for them to take
1:52 their breaks
1:55 and there's specific guidelines some of which
1:56 which
1:58 didn't make a whole hell of a lot of
2:00 sense but i think
2:02 most of the
2:04 kinks most of the problems have been
2:05 worked out
2:08 uh to where most companies are doing a
2:10 much much better job but
2:11 but
2:15 the heat illness prevention rules can be
2:18 uh incorporated into your
2:21 injury and illness prevention program
2:23 another acronym
2:25 lucky you
2:28 you need to know iip as well injury and
2:31 illness prevention program or is it
2:33 illness and injury doesn't matter um
2:34 um
2:36 which one comes first it doesn't matter
2:37 to me
2:43 um but the iipp is your specific plan
2:47 on how to deal with everything regarding
2:49 your employees injury and illness prevention
2:50 prevention
2:52 what do you do what is your worker
2:54 safety plan
2:56 and you're required to have one
2:58 and there are great cookie cutter starting
2:59 starting
3:03 tools where you can start with
3:07 some generic iipp and as you go through
3:09 it just make changes that make sense for
3:12 your company as long as it's applying to
3:14 the law but
3:17 no injury and illness prevention program
3:18 program
3:20 or plan
3:22 again i don't care if you use program or
3:23 plan because i've seen them used interchangeably
3:33 it can't know your specific situation
3:35 so how much water do you have to make
3:37 available to your employees
3:40 that is a minimum set by law you can't
3:42 change that well i'm only going to give
3:45 our employees one quart per day no you
3:50 but you can
3:52 in your own
3:54 company's plan
3:57 set up exactly how you're going to
3:58 provide shade
4:01 there might be shade available in
4:04 different ways on different ranches
4:06 maybe you have a permanent shade building
4:07 building
4:10 on one ranch that you can utilize maybe
4:13 maybe one of your ranches is
4:15 this long thin
4:17 row crop area
4:19 with some
4:21 shade trees right next to it you can use
4:23 the shade trees if they're on your robbery
4:26 anyway
4:30 the iipp is specific to your company
4:32 the enforcement of heat illness
4:34 prevention is under the division of
4:37 occupational safety and health at the
4:40 federal level or cal osha
4:44 at the california state level so the
4:45 ones that really
4:48 do the boots on the ground work
4:51 are likely the ag commissioner
4:53 and occasionally
4:58 so what is heat illness
5:00 means a serious medical condition resulting
5:01 resulting
5:04 from the body's inability to cope with a
5:07 particular heat load and includes heat
5:09 cramps heat exhaustion
5:11 heat syncope and
5:12 eat stroke
5:14 so heat syncope you're getting dizzy
5:18 possibly fainting and heat stroke is
5:19 near death and
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5:21 [Music]
5:24 it can be surprising how quickly this
5:25 can happen
5:27 you need to be watching your fellow
5:30 workers you need to talk to fellow workers
5:32 workers
5:34 when i work with crews i encourage them
5:36 to pay attention to their work
5:39 but talk a little bit
5:41 and i don't mean just gossip gossip
5:44 gossip but talk about the work talk
5:47 about something say something because
5:49 when you talk to your fellow worker
5:52 that's a red flag you start flaring your
5:54 words a little bit
5:57 you start saying something that has absolutely
6:03 no sense or just
6:05 they're confusing and you're like what's
6:06 going on
6:09 and if somebody starts slurring starts
6:12 moving in a funny manner whatever
6:15 you're on the verge of it's too it's too
6:17 late to catch it early
6:21 it's now entering emergency situation
6:22 get them to shade
6:31 very serious condition you need to know
6:33 how to deal with it now
6:35 in salinas do we have this kind of a
6:37 problem yeah
6:41 is it as serious as fresno not at all
6:43 fresno has a much bigger problem with
6:45 heat illness obviously than we do here
6:48 in salinas but
6:50 in salinas in a way it has a little more
6:53 insidious problems because
6:54 we don't
6:56 deal with heat that much
6:59 we're not used to it that much
7:01 my personal situation with heat illness
7:04 was mostly because i would have crews
7:07 helping with the seed fields over in the
7:11 areas of fire bar somewhere like that down
7:13 down
7:16 past huron south of huron and
7:19 it gets really hot out there and i've
7:22 got a crew that's including myself
7:26 that's been in salinas wearing jackets
7:34 now that only happened once but 105
7:40 105
7:43 from 55
7:46 and your body's not ready for it and so
7:49 you're taking people who aren't used to
7:51 it putting them in an environment that's
7:53 too hot
7:55 and you got to pay attention you got to
7:57 remind people you got to talk and make
7:59 sure they're talking okay you got to
8:01 make sure they're drinking water
8:02 you got to make sure that they're using
8:04 the restroom everybody should use the
8:07 restroom a couple of times
8:08 if they're not they're not drinking
8:14 anyway so what do you do to prevent heat illness
8:16 illness
8:19 water it's one of the main things to do
8:22 lots of good clean potable means
8:23 drinking water
8:26 clean healthy drinking water
8:29 has to be in sufficient quantity i think
8:30 it's still the same at one quart per
8:32 employee per hour
8:35 and if that's changed you know i would
8:37 suggest you always double check the
8:39 rules but i'm pretty sure that is
8:40 is uh
8:42 uh
8:44 a stable number now one quart per
8:46 employee per hour
8:48 access to shade for at least five
8:50 minutes open to the air so it can't be
8:53 inside some enclosed
8:56 pressure cooker tent structure it has to
8:59 be shade and it has to be open air
9:01 some sort of ventilation or cooling can
9:04 be provided outside of the open air
9:07 design depending what you have and the
9:08 shade is permitted at all times
9:11 depending on the temperature again there
9:13 the rules change and i'm not going to
9:15 try and quote the temperatures but it
9:17 starts getting hot
9:20 the rules change
9:23 you've got to allow employees to take
9:25 these five-minute breaks effective
9:27 effective
9:30 on 17th of march in 2009
9:32 is when the
9:34 modern version of heat illness
9:36 prevention standard was implemented
9:38 there have been minor tweaks to my
9:40 understanding since 2009 but
9:42 but
9:45 the meat of it really happened on this
9:47 particular day with that one quart
9:51 per hour per worker of water um
9:52 um
9:55 shade 25 of the crew at a time within
9:57 five minute walk of their work area
9:59 that one was part of the very difficult
10:01 things to impose
10:02 in some
10:06 ranches when it takes
10:08 for some very large blocks
10:10 six minutes to get to the center of the
10:13 field how can you provide five minute
10:15 uh shape well
10:18 osha would say break the block up put a
10:19 road down the middle of it lose a little
10:27 in 2011 there was an audit performed
10:30 that found after a couple of years of
10:33 this really strong promotion of heat
10:36 illness prevention 50 over 50
10:39 of the companies audited in california
10:42 were out of compliance with the law they
10:43 weren't providing enough shade they
10:45 weren't providing enough water they
10:47 weren't providing
10:49 what they what was required under the
10:54 law so as a result of that in 2012
10:56 uh ocean
10:58 calosha developed a heat illness
11:00 prevention campaign
11:03 to ramp it up and get out to the growers
11:06 and they started in an office in
11:08 bakersfield which
11:11 i'm pretty sure that it's still
11:13 nine years later it's still
11:19 i think i mentioned this in a previous
11:21 presentation but the farm employers
11:22 labor service
11:26 has a heat illness summary to help
11:27 growers understand their responsibilities
11:29 responsibilities and
11:30 and
11:34 it's a great resource for employers for
11:37 farm operators to understand not just
11:39 about heat illness prevention but about anything
11:41 anything
11:43 when you're dealing with farm labor
11:45 how do you make sure you're following
11:48 the law you're providing what's required
11:49 and you're doing what you should be doing
11:54 so
11:57 now we've got the iipp
12:01 injury and illness prevention program
12:04 uh now if it's injury and illness or
12:06 illness and injury on a test i'm not
12:08 going to ding you for that or if you use
12:10 program or plan i'm not going to ding
12:11 you for that but i'm certain that this
12:13 one is correct injury and illness
12:16 prevention program is what is written
12:17 under the law and
12:18 and
12:21 so this is the at the federal level the
12:23 department of industrial relations and
12:24 and
12:26 everybody has to have
12:29 some sort of an illness injury and illness
12:30 illness
12:32 prevention program in place
12:35 that's specific to your company and like
12:37 i said you can create
12:38 your own
12:40 document using templates that are
12:42 already there so it doesn't have to be a
12:45 monumental task but employers must
12:50 then you have to implement it you can't
12:52 just say we've got it in a binder on a shelf
12:53 shelf
12:56 it's not about being in a binder on a
12:59 shelf that's step one you actually have
13:01 to do all those things in the field you
13:04 have to implement it
13:06 and you don't just do it once you have
13:08 to maintain it which means as things
13:10 change you've got to review your
13:13 your program make sure that it still
13:16 matches your company size the ranches
13:19 you have the surrounding environment all
13:21 of the things specific to your company
13:23 things like who's in charge who do you
13:26 call which hospital you go to
13:30 if you know an employer
13:32 maybe one of the supervisors has to take
13:34 a worker to the hospital where do they go
13:39 you can't put a generic plan for
13:42 everybody in the country you need
13:45 something specific to your situation
13:46 from your location and maybe you've got
13:49 multiple locations so you know if you're on
13:50 on
13:53 ranches in salinas you're going to go to um
13:54 um
13:57 salinas valley memorial hospital but if you're
13:57 you're
13:59 in our
14:08 so the program must be effective and it
14:10 must be written you can't just say oh we
14:12 got a plan
14:14 i told all the employees what to do
14:16 and they signed a document saying that
14:19 they heard me say it no it has to be written
14:20 written
14:23 it has to be reviewable by employees as
14:25 well as
14:28 uh the regulatory
14:31 authorities at a minimum
14:34 an iipp must identify the person or
14:36 persons with authority and
14:38 responsibility for implementing the
14:41 program who's making sure this program
14:43 is happening it must include a system
14:51 it's not all the responsibility of the employer
14:52 employer
14:56 employees must comply if you've got a
14:59 hard hat area where employees must wear
15:00 hard ads
15:04 you need to train them there first
15:06 you should post it
15:08 you know hard hat area on a sign
15:11 but then employees must follow that rule
15:13 they if they go into that area they got
15:19 what do you do if they don't
15:20 there has to be some sort of a system document
15:22 document
15:24 uh reprimand even fire employees who
15:27 don't comply who don't follow safety
15:31 rules they put everybody at risk
15:34 the iipp must include a system for
15:38 communicating with employees in a form
15:40 readily understandable by all affected employees
15:42 employees
15:44 you can't have
15:46 you know a posting in mandarin when your
15:48 employees speak spanish
15:50 it has to be a language they understand
15:52 trainings they understand
15:54 documents meetings
15:56 on and on there are lots of ways to
15:59 communicate and
16:01 in every company i've ever been in it's
16:02 a combination of these things it's a
16:05 combination of trainings postings handouts
16:07 handouts uh
16:09 uh
16:11 postings can be
16:15 very simple bold hard hat area sign
16:18 or they can be more detailed break room
16:21 lists of forklift safety rules that sit
16:23 on the wall in the break room so
16:25 you know you train your employees on it
16:27 and then whenever they want to review
16:28 while they're eating lunch it's right
16:29 there on the wall
16:33 they can sit there and read it
16:36 lots and lots of ways
16:39 to follow the rules a lot of times i've
16:40 seen in the fields where um
16:42 um
16:46 there are posters all over the bathrooms
16:49 in order for the company to say yeah
16:50 we're complying with the law we're
16:53 posting this do employees actually read
16:55 what's on a
16:57 porta potty out in the field
16:59 probably not is that the most effective
17:02 way of doing it
17:04 you better be doing something else it
17:06 complies with the law but it's probably
17:10 not reaching very many employees
17:12 iipps must include procedures for
17:16 identifying and evaluating workplace hazards
17:18 hazards so
17:24 how do you find what are the hazards
17:26 and what happens when those change you
17:28 start doing things differently get new
17:30 equipment new
17:32 chemicals new uh machinery
17:34 machinery
17:36 new ways of doing things on and on and
17:39 on that are
17:41 things that are new that you didn't have
17:43 five years ago when you first wrote the iep
17:51 the iipp must include a procedure to
17:54 investigate occupational injury or
17:57 occupational illness what do you do when
17:59 something happens
18:01 just because you have
18:04 an iipp doesn't mean nobody will ever
18:06 get sick or injured
18:11 it reduces the likelihood hopefully
18:13 and it reduces it substantially but
18:15 eventually somebody's going to get hurt
18:17 what do you do
18:19 what's the procedure
18:20 how do you look into it how do you
18:22 figure out what happened what went wrong
18:24 why did somebody get hurt
18:26 what what can we do to prevent this in
18:29 the future so nobody else gets hurt in
18:36 the iipp must include methods and or
18:38 procedures for correcting unsafe or
18:40 unhealthy conditions work practices
18:42 and work
18:44 procedures in a timely manner
18:48 and based on the severity of the hazard
18:51 so for example the
18:53 the pto
18:55 pto shielding
18:56 shielding
18:58 breaks free
19:00 you can't use it anymore
19:02 that piece of equipment is too dangerous
19:04 without the shield
19:05 you need to get somebody in there a
19:08 welder a fabricator somebody to fix it
19:13 but there's a nail coming up a little
19:15 bit on a loose stair and you know it's
19:17 fine you know you just don't want
19:20 somebody to trip on that loose stair so um
19:22 um
19:23 you get a work order and it's going to
19:27 be done on friday no problem
19:30 minor severity minor issue
19:32 highly unlikely it could possibly have a problem
19:33 problem
19:36 get to it soon
19:38 if it's truly dangerous
19:40 stop work
19:43 until it's fixed or handled
19:46 and again the details of this
19:48 depends there's lots of court cases and
19:51 precedent to make it clear
19:58 iipps must provide training and instruction
19:59 instruction
20:02 when the program is established at the
20:04 very beginning everybody gets trained
20:07 anytime a new employee comes on that new
20:09 employee must be trained
20:12 and the challenge with new employees is
20:13 you've got a lot of things you got to
20:15 deal with the iapd you got to deal with
20:16 pesticide training
20:18 you've got all these things you need to
20:21 train an employee on before they can go
20:23 to work
20:25 if an employee is given new job
20:26 assignments they're going to be doing
20:29 something new in a new area well that
20:38 whenever new substances processes
20:40 procedures equipment blah blah blah
20:41 there's a new hazard
20:47 if there's a new or previously
20:50 unrecognized hazard so
20:52 you have your perfect eye ipp and
20:55 somebody points out maybe an inspector
20:57 maybe an employee hey we really should have
20:58 have
21:01 uh some safety on this uh-oh we missed
21:03 that before
21:05 better train everybody on it it's been
21:07 newly identified
21:09 and to familiarize supervised to
21:12 familiarize supervisors with hazards to
21:15 employees under their immediate
21:17 direction and control so it's not just
21:19 the employees but
21:23 everything that those employees do under
21:26 the supervision of a given supervisor
21:29 that supervisor needs the same training
21:32 that everybody under that supervisor has
21:34 so they understand all of the safety
21:36 issues for everybody
21:43 so the iipp records must include
21:46 scheduled and periodic inspections
21:49 safety and health training records
21:52 and all of these records must be
21:55 maintained for at least one year and
21:57 and
21:59 i would advise that you
22:01 consult your
22:04 uh corporate attorney or whoever
22:06 is responsible for
22:08 your legal
22:11 obligations for the company
22:13 to find out how long is too long
22:16 sometimes keeping records for too long
22:17 has its own
22:19 potential pitfalls
22:22 not too likely in iipps but always
22:24 double check all right we need it for
22:26 less than one year but at what point do we
22:28 we
22:30 do we throw things out do we go through
22:33 them every six months
22:36 and anything that's older than 18 months
22:42 but it is good to review your records
22:44 and shred things that are getting too old
22:45 old
22:47 it's always a good idea
22:50 and i will defer to your corporate
22:54 attorney to determine what is too old
22:56 that could present challenges or
22:58 potential liability if you hold on to
23:05 pesticide safety the california
23:07 code of regulations
23:10 six pesticide and pest control
23:12 operations under the california
23:14 department of pesticide regulation california
23:16 california dpr
23:24 employers of pesticide handlers must
23:26 have a written training program for the employees
23:27 employees
23:30 so this is different
23:32 because it's pesticides
23:35 and it's a different area so you need a specific
23:36 specific
23:38 training program
23:40 just for pesticides and
23:47 to be a handler is a specific category
23:51 of training if you are just incidentally
23:53 involved because maybe you're part of a
23:56 harvest crew you're going into a field
23:59 that was previously sprayed
24:01 you're not handling the pesticides but
24:04 you're going into fields after the
24:07 reentry or restricted entry interval is elapsed
24:09 elapsed
24:11 so the rei is over you're going into the
24:13 field you need training about working
24:16 around places that have been sprayed
24:19 with pesticides
24:20 but you're not handled
24:24 the handlers have a higher level of training
24:25 training
24:29 and because of the dangers of pesticides
24:32 handlers must be retrained every single
24:33 single year
24:36 year
24:37 so there's a hazard communication
24:40 program for pesticides including what's called
24:41 called
24:44 the safety data sheets this is an old
24:47 term they used to be called material
24:50 safety data sheets msdss
24:52 now they're just called safety data
24:54 sheets sds
24:56 and occasionally you still run across
25:00 the term material safety data sheet or msds
25:01 msds
25:04 but i don't know how long it's been probably
25:06 probably
25:07 i don't i don't want to venture a guess
25:09 but it's been a number of years that the
25:11 m has been dropped and they just call
25:14 them safety data sheets and you need
25:15 safety data sheets for every single
25:17 pesticide used and
25:18 and
25:20 you might need them for osha as well i
25:23 needed to have safety data sheets
25:24 for the
25:27 toilet bowl cleanser that i got from safeway
25:28 safeway
25:31 that was under the sink because it is a
25:34 chemical that is dangerous
25:36 you can't drink
25:39 the toilet bowl cleaner
25:41 and it's at a work site i needed a
25:44 safety data sheet in my binder for the
25:46 toilet bowl cleanser in
25:47 in
25:48 the uh
25:58 everything you need the safety data
26:01 sheets provide periodic cholinesterase
26:02 blood tests under certain conditions
26:04 certain pesticides
26:08 react if you get contaminated they react
26:10 in a way that you can detect it in your blood
26:10 blood
26:13 if you've been exposed especially
26:15 especially small
26:16 small
26:19 excessive dose exposures over a longer
26:21 period of time you can have
26:24 these cholinesterase
26:26 levels that would indicate you've had
26:28 excessive exposure so
26:30 so
26:32 you keep an eye on it
26:34 you keep an eye on your employees you do
26:36 these quick and easy inexpensive blood
26:38 tests to make sure
26:40 that they're not showing any kind of
26:45 signs of exposure to pesticides
26:47 certain pesticides
26:49 you have to have a written respiratory program
26:50 program
26:51 how do you
26:54 get proper fitting proper training proper
26:55 proper uh
26:56 uh
26:58 choice of filters
27:00 for the chemicals you use et cetera et cetera
27:02 cetera
27:05 the employees
27:07 must require people working alone with
27:10 restricted pesticides labeled dangerous
27:12 to have contact with another person
27:15 every two hours during daylight and
27:18 every hour at night
27:20 and i've got an easy solution to this
27:21 nobody's ever alone if they're working
27:23 with dangerous pesticides ever
27:25 ever
27:28 is that required under federal law no
27:31 but i think it's a good idea somebody's nearby
27:32 nearby
27:39 what about contractors they're not
27:43 necessarily your employees you have
27:45 labor contractors doing harvest
27:47 operations maybe weeding and thinning
27:48 there are number of things you might
27:51 have some plumber coming to your site to
27:56 they know nothing about agriculture they
27:58 should know about plumbing
28:00 they're on your site they must be
28:02 notified of areas
28:04 of pesticide applications
28:07 and areas where entry is restricted
28:10 you've got to keep people informed and
28:13 just because they're not your employees
28:14 if they're coming onto your property for
28:17 any reason they need to be notified and
28:19 even if somebody drives off the side of
28:23 the road to steal your strawberries
28:26 they need to be notified how by putting
28:37 see the agricultural hazardous materials
28:39 transportation endorsement
28:42 on their specific driver
28:43 driver training
28:45 training and
28:46 and
28:48 so there's specific
28:50 requirements if you're driving trucks
28:54 with pesticides in it so the dl267 holders
28:55 holders
28:57 the holders of this certificate are
28:59 exempted from the hazardous materials
29:01 provisions of the california commercial
29:03 driver's license program including but
29:07 not limited to drug and alcohol testing
29:09 won't get into the specific of that but
29:11 you need to know
29:12 be in compliance with the department of
29:15 transportation d.o.t and
29:17 and
29:18 that's what dot is department of transportation
29:27 you need to make sure that you know
29:30 what your drivers are required to do
29:32 are they
29:35 transporting these materials well
29:38 commercial truck drivers bring a
29:41 shipment of pesticides from the
29:44 manufacturer to a to an outlet a retail
29:47 outlet that's a different scenario than
29:48 one of your
29:51 field supervisors bringing some
29:53 pesticides to the applicator out in the
29:56 field from your warehouse to the field
29:58 very different things you need to make
30:01 sure you know and i don't even want to
30:03 try to get into that here
30:06 um but when you're putting pesticides in
30:08 a vehicle and transporting it
30:10 you better know
30:13 what is and is not legal
30:20 tractor and equipment safety let me take