areas of concern for safety

1. Areas of Concerns for Safety
Measures
Prepare by Daisylin S. Icao

2. Picture Analysis! Direction the learners identify
the picture what irrigation method is used.

3. Pick me up! Based on the pictures below,
determine the different work task, by
writing your answer on the space provided
below each picture.

5. Think and Write! Choose and encircle the following
tools and equipment that you can find inside the
box.

6. Different farm work task using tools
and equipment.

8. Machineries
– are used in land preparation
and transporting farm inputs and
products.

9. Equipment
– refers to powered tools
machine used in farming.

10. Different accident that you may encounter
during land preparation using tractor:
1. Victims fall off or are thrown from the
tractor.
 2. Run over by either the tractor or
implement’s being towed or both.
3. Overturn

11. Safety reminders in using tractors:
1. Tractors are not passenger vehicles.
2. Use seat belts when driving tractor.
3. Roll Over Protection Structure (ROPS)
will protect the operator from serious
injuries.

12. Cause of accidents in a tractor.
1. Sudden stops.
2. Driving over holes, stumps, and
debris or a sharp turn.

13. How to protect run over
1. Never allow riders on tractor
2. Discuss with family member and farm
workers the potential risk of riding
tractor.
3. It is also helpful to post “no riders”
decals on all tractor to remind others
about the policy.

14. Identify the different safety reminders in using
a tractor. Choose your answer inside the box.

15. If you will be asked to operate a
tractor what are safety precautions
you will do?

16. Multiple Choice: Choose the Letter of the correct
answer.
1.What are used in land preparation and
transporting farm inputs and products?
a. Machineries b. Equipment c. Tools d. harrow
2. What is ROPS?
a. Roll Over Protection Structure
b. Rule Over Protection Structures
c. Roll Over Provide Structure
d. Roll Over Protection Sun

17. 3-5. Enumerate 3 safety
reminders in using tractors.

18. Assignment
Gear Me Up! A. Direction: Draw your
favorite farm tool in a (1) one short –
sized bond paper and write/explain
its uses and importance.

19. Identify the different safety reminders in using a
tractor. Choose your answer below.
a. Tractors are not passenger vehicles
b. Never allow riders on tractors
c. Use seat belts when driving tractors
d. Driving over holes, stumps and debris or a
sharp turn
e. ROPS will protect the operator for serious
injuries

20. Know Me! How do you use me.

21. Identify the different tools and PPE being used
in land preparation.

22. Time of land clearance
Traditionally Land clearance is conducted
prior to the onset of rains, depending on the
land to be cleared. However, it is generally
advisable to clean the land immediately after
harvesting. This provide time for crop residue
to decompose over time, prior to the next
cultivating season, making nutrients available
for the coming season

23. 1. If plant residue is not burned on the
field, advantages includes:
 Improved soil fertility
 Increase water holding
capacity of soil.
 Protection from soil erosion

24. Land preparation
Is one of the most laborious
activities performed during crop
husbandry. This includes the
steps that will make the soil ready
for planting.

25. Poor farm work practices create hazards – example of
unsafe work practices commonly found in the
workplace includes:
1. Using machinery or tools without authority
2. Using defective tools or equipment or using
tools and equipment in unsafe ways.
 3. Using hand or body instead of tools or push
sticks.

26. 4. Failing to use aid/ or maintained or
improperly using of personal protective
equipment of safety devices.
 5. Creating unsafe, unsanitary or
unhealthy condition by improper
personal hygiene, poor workplace
maintenance or by smoking in
unauthorized area.

27. Safety measures while working in the field.
1. Wear personal protective equipment (PPE).
a. Boots b. Gloves c. Hat d. Goggles e. Mask
2. Pre – operational checkup of defective
tools. - Tools should be check before used. -
Select the right tools for the job/task.
3. Ocular inspection of the field / farm.

28. Different tools, Implements and Equipment
Used in Land Preparation:

29. Plow
– is used to tilt the land

30. Two Types of Plow
1. Native plow - This plow is
being pulled by farm animals
2. Disc plow - Being pulled by
a four-wheel tractor.

31. Harrow
– is used to pulverize the soil

32. Two Types of Harrow
1. Disc harrow – an implement attached to a
four-wheel tractor use to pulverize the soil.
2. Native harrow – an implement pulled by
farm animals used to pulverized the soil.

33. Types of a Native Harrow
a. Tooth harrow
b. Wooden harrow
c. Bamboo harrow

34. Below are the different farm tasks for land preparation.
Gives the appropriate tool for the said farm task.
Choose your answer inside the box and write it on the
space provided.
1. Making furrows and inter-row cultivation __
2. Cutting weeds _____________
3. Digging out big stones and tree stamps __
4. Breaking hard top soil ________
5. Leveling the top soil ________

35. Explain the following safety measures briefly.
1. Invest in the right PPE(Personal Protective
Equipment)
2. Proper use of equipment.
3. Adequate preparation of the area.
4. Have an emergency safety measure in place.

36. Multiple Choice: Choose the Letter of the correct
answer.
1.Which does NOT belong to the group?
a. Boots b. Gloves
c. Hair net d. Hat
2.Which does NOT belong to the group?
a.Goggles b. Mask
c. Face shield d. Sandals

37. 3. What plow is being pulled by farm animals?
a. Native plow b.Disc Plow
c. Tooth harrow d. Disc harrow
4. What implement attached to a four wheel tractor use
to pulverize the soil?
a. Native plow b.Disc Plow
c. Tooth harrow d. Disc harrow
5. What is being pulled by a four -wheel tractor?
a. Native plow b.Disc Plow
c. Tooth harrow d. Disc harrow

38. Assignment
Answer Me!
How do you avoid unsafe
work practices?

39. Connect Me! Connect the following
pictures to its corresponding names.

40. Gear Me Up! Check the suitable personal
protective equipment (PPE) used in different
farm tasks.

41. Types of Personal Protective Equipment
and Its Functions
HEAD PROTECTION - Task where there is a risk
of falling objects or working on/under
equipment could result in a head injury. Wear
head protection such as safety hats.
Helmet - protect the user's head against:
impact from objects falling from above, by
resisting and deflecting blows to the head

42. EYES AND FACE PROTECTION - Eyes are very
sensitive to the chemicals contained in some
pesticide formulations, especially concentrates.

46. Shelf Life of Different Materials
1. Gloves - An exact shelf life time
period is dependent on what specific
material the gloves are made of and
storage facilities , a general rule of
thumb in three years for disposable
natural latex gloves used up to five (5)
years for disposable nitrile gloves.

47. 2. Hat
- There isn’t a legal expiration date for
hard hats, most companies used a policy of
five (5) years from the manufacturing date
and three (3) years from the date of issue.
If a hard hat becomes damage before the
time has passed then it obviously needs
replaced however the 3 and 5 year rule is
good practice to follow.

48. 3. Mask
- The shelf life of mask is a maximum of
5 years from production date. This is also
dependent on storage conditions. For
example the mask have to be stored in
their original packaging

49. 4. Boots
- Good boots or hiking shoes are
important in survival scenario. Featured
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that they probably have a 7-10 years
shelf life

50. 5. Goggles
- When stored correctly and without use,
the maximum lifetime of a safety -
eyewear products is 6 years. Depending
on the intensity of use and wear caused
by external influences, if protective
eyewear has been scratched or otherwise
damaged it must be replaced.

51. Draw your answer on the space before the each
number. Draw a heart if the statement is true
and smiley if it is not.
____1. Personal Protective Equipment is essential to
prevent damage work.
____2. Earmuffs are suitable to protect eyes from small
particles.
____3. Face Shield is appropriate to use when spraying
plants using chemicals.
____4. Gloves are for hand protection.
____5. Boots are bot necessary when you are gardening.

52. Direction: Write the appropriate PPE used
in the human body image.

53. Multiple Choice: Choose the Letter of the correct
answer.
1.Which of the following PPE’s protects the head
from any injury?
a. Helmet c. Gloves b. goggles d. Boots
2. Which is used to protect the hands from any cuts,
scrapes, bruises or chemical contact?
a. Boots c. face shield b. goggles d. Gloves

54. 3.Which protects the foot from wounds, cuts and
other injuries?
a. Gloves c. face shield b. Boots d. Goggles
4. What prevents the wearer from inhaling any type
of particular matters?
a. goggles c. boots b. goggles d. Respirator
5. What are the two types of shelf life?