Training Room 2: Keeping Safe and Healthy—Standards and Practices in an Agricultural Environment
Farmyard Safety—What Can Be Done to Prevent Injuries?
There are standards and practices that you can use to keep yourself safe when working in hazardous environments.
Gordon Coulthart/Courtesy of Canadian Agricultural Safety Association
Your first step towards safety is to be aware of hazards on your farm. The next critical step is gaining knowledge of what to do to protect yourself and others from such hazards. Understanding the standards and practices to keep you safe is a way of protecting yourself. Teaching others about these standards and practices ensures that your workplace is safe for everyone.
Lesson Glossary
Remember these definitions?
standards: something established by authority or common agreement as good examples or as the rules for quality
practices: particular ways of accomplishing something or acting
Watch and Listen
Watch the following videos about work place hazards on the farm. These videos will introduce you to some of the specific workplace hazards considered in this training room. The first three videos were made by students.
Technical Note: Be patient. Each video takes a few moments to load. Turn each movie off and close it before watching a new one.
Think about how you might produce a similar piece for Project 2. Consider that you will need to show the hazard but also include examples of the safety standards and procedures that protect the worker.
- Work Place Safety on the Farm (student-made video (second-place winner in the WSIB student video contest)
- BBQ Silo—4H Ontario Farm Safety (student-made video about one of the dangers of confined spaces)
- Tired Hands—4H Ontario Farm Safety (student-made video about fatigue and chemical spills)
- Teach, Learn, Care TLC—The Flach Web Story (video relating a farming accident involving electricity)
Checking In
Your Task
Choose one of the hazards from the videos above that could be an issue in your workplace, one that you might like to consider using for your project.
Predict what you think would be a few important safety standards and procedures that would have helped to prevent the injury that occured.
Share your thoughts with a co-worker, fellow student, or family member.