Project 3: Creating a Health and Safety Action Plan

Your Task

Your project will require you to create a tool that will be a guiding document for worker health and safety in your agricultural workplace. Each farm is unique, so your Health and Safety Action Plan should reflect the particular agricultural environment you are or will be working in.

This Health and Safety Action Plan could take the form of a series of Microsoft Word documents, a One Note book, collections of PowerPoint slides or another form of digital portfolio that you arrange with your teacher.

You should focus your Health and Safety Action Plan so that it is specific for your current agricultural worksite or a worksite that you would choose to work on. You need to clarify some of the general safety rules and procedures on your farm and then include detailed rules and procedures for the hazardous areas that are most relevent to your agricultural worksite. You should discuss your choices with your instructor.

With your Health and Safety Action Plan your learning targets will be to

• identify and demonstrate the use of the safety equipment, standards and procedures for general health and safety on your farm
• identify and demonstrate the use of the safety equipment, standards and procedures for the specific hazards on your farm
• create an emergency response strategy that your workers would follow if an accident occured

To Do

1. Choose your focus. Begin by selecting which one of the following hazard categories your Health and Safety Action Plan will focus on:
   
   
   • animal handling hazards
   • farm machinery and equipment hazards
   • fire and electricity hazards
   • farm environmental hazards (such as ladder use, confined spaces, ergonomics, natural environment)
   • workplace chemical use and storage
     
     
2. Determine some of the criteria for assessment. List and describe the top two things about your design that will make your Health and Safety Action Plan most effective in clearly communicating health and safety practices and procedures to your co-workers. These two criteria will be handed in attached to your Self-Assessment for Project 3 and used with the AGR3000 Project Rubric to assess your plan.
   
   
3. Find the information you need. Do some research to find the important equipment, standards and procedures for establishing safe working conditions in your chosen areas. Use
   
   
   • exemplars available below
   • videos, interactivities and text resources provided throughout course
   • onlline resources that you find and assess as valid and reliable
   • safety awareness materials currently available to you on your worksite
   • discussions with supervisors and fellow employees on your worksite
   • personal observations made when touring your worksite
     
     
4. Design and create. You will design and create a Health and Safety Action Plan that could be used by workers on your agricultural worksite.

Health and Safety Action Plan Components

Part 1: General Safety—Health and Safety Plan Identifiy the general everyday equipment and practices for safe work habits on your worksite (e.g., no smoking, who to report concerns to, rules about horseplay, first-aid information) Use a series of instructions, statements, questions or images to demonstrate the equipment and practices.

Part 2: Specific Hazards—Health and Safety Plan Identify Hazards: Identify the details of how each of the specific hazards you have chosen could be present on your worksite. Hazard Control: Indicate the protective equipment, standards and practices that would be important for health and safety in your work environment (in the form of checklists, questionnaires, image collections).

Part 3: What to Do in an Emergency Create an emergency response strategy for your worksite, including location of first-aid kits emergency numbers emergency addresses cell phone availability legal land descriptions (for ambulance direction) emergency response directions

5. Submit your work. You will submit a final copy of your Health and Safety Action Plan in the form that most suits you:
   
   
   • PowerPoint or other digital presentation tool of your choice
   • Word Document or One Notebook with text and images
   • Other format agreed upon by you and your teacher

Please remember to contact your teacher with questions, concerns or requests for feedback as you work on this project.

Tools

Final Submission

Submit your project Health and Safety Action Plan and your Self Assessment for Project 3 to your teacher.