An Ounce of Prevention
Any workplace condition, activity, or characteristic that, by itself or combined with other factors, can lead to an incident resulting in injury, illness, property damage, or even death.
What is a hazard or danger?
The consequence of taking a shortcut rather than the recommended safer way of completing a task.
What is the risk of injury or death?
PPE
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
- Used together these will protect the life of a tractor operator in the event of an overturn.
What are a seatbelt and ROPS?
On square balers, never pull anything out of this because it’s easy to become entangled in it.
What is the knotter? Or any moving part?
Job safety analysis, routine inspections, daily maintenance checks, owner’s manual review, and system safety reviews.
What are steps to prevent injury?
Parts on equipment that must often be taken off for maintenance but need to be replaced before using the equipment.
What are guards or shields?
Provides protection for your head when working in areas where things can fall or where you could bump your head on something hard.
What is a hard hat or a bump cap?
Occurs when a load is hitched above the tractor’s drawbar.
What is a rear overturn?
The number of extra riders allowed on a combine with a cab and one seat.
What is none (zero)?
This action takes a look at the combination of agents of injury - the environment and the operator (or human factor).
What is hazard analysis?
Stepping over this moving part instead of walking around it may save 3 seconds, but could cost your life.
What is a rotating PTO shaft?
Protection used when working in noisy areas, on loud equipment, or sometimes in livestock confinement buildings.
What are ear plugs or ear protection?
The amount of time it takes for a rear overturn to occur.
What is 1.5 seconds?
The proper position for hydraulically raised and lowered equipment when it needs to be serviced.
What is down, completely down, to the lowest position possible?
The emphasis of a positive approach to hazard identification and correction.
What is injury prevention?
Never use these to check for leaks in hydraulic or other high pressure lines.
What are your hands or any body part?
- Protection worn when doing tasks in which object can be thrown, such as grinding, sawing, hammering, trimming, or mowing.
What are goggles or eye protection?
ROPS
What is Rollover Protection Structure?
It’s what you should do before servicing any type of self-propelled (motorized) farm equipment.
What is disengage the PTO and turn the engine OFF?
These include the weather, the work site, isolation of work, availability of emergency services, personal hygiene, as well as noise, vibration, lighting, and dusts.
What are environmental factors that influence farm work and risk of injury?
Jumping or otherwise not using the steps.
What is how not to get off of a tractor or piece of equipment?
Protection used in an oxygen-deficient confined space.
What is a self contained breathing apparatus or an oxygen supplied respirator?
It’s what may happen when the right front wheel of the tractor enters a ditch and the operator tries to turn it back onto the roadway.
What is a side rollover?
- Never use your hands to feed this into a baler.
What is straw or hay?