1. Work Safely With Agricultural Machinery
How to work safely with mobile and fixed agricultural machinery - specially when maintaining
care and transaction with congestion.
Machinery accidents are caused by a ambit of factors including:
▪ Using a machine that is not applicable for the job;
▪ Miscarrying to follow a secure system of work;
▪ Hazardous ways for clearing congestion or making tuning;
▪ Miscarrying to follow safe operating or ‘secure Stop’ procedures;
▪ Guards and other safety devices lost or defective;
▪ Deficiency of operator education;
▪ Insufficient care.
Hazardous areas on farming machinery
Many farming machines have possibly hazardous moving parts, which can cause important or
deadly wounds. For example: ▪
▪ Balers - pick-ups, twine mechanisms and moving rear doors;
2. ▪ Bait harvesters - cutting cylinders;
▪ Combine harvesters - augers in the cereal
tank and the header unit;
▪ Potato harvesters - rotating rollers and
conveyors;
▪ Slurry tankers - power take-off (PTO) shafts;
▪ Bale and hay choppers - chopping
mechanisms;
▪ Tractor - hitch mechanisms, PTOs and PTO
shafts;
▪ Power harrows - rotating tines;
▪ Feeder wagons - turning out ingredients in the mixing chamber.
These machines and others like them are highly powerful. Workers using them may become
contented and may not be conscious of the powers involved. For example:
▪ With tractors, a 10 cm diameter fencepost is smashed into matchwood nearly Right away
when trapped in a rising pick-up hitch;
▪ Leaking hydraulic oil from a explosion hose can be projected at 3000 psi and will indwell the
skin as easily as it would if delivered through a hypodermic syringe;
▪ A PTO shaft will wrap clothes, hair or arms at a rate of about 1.5 metres per second.
Check Measures
Secure Stop
It is highly dangerous to carry out any work on a machine while it is below power. The most
significant safety measure is to follow the safe stop process before carrying out any care or
adjustments, admitting dealing with a congestion or other problem:
▪ Set up the handbrake on.
▪ Be sure the checks are in inactivel (equipment made safe).
▪ Stop the engine (or turn off the power).
▪ Remove the key (or lock-off the power supply).
Many dangerous and deadly accidents have happened where operators have tested to clear
blockages, tested to correct errors or worked on machines with the engine running or power
engaged. So all of the time be sure you follow the safe stop process.
3. Remember that agricultural machines may have several power sources - mechanical, hydraulic
and electrical . All power sources must be isolated during safe stop. Usually, stopping the tractor
and removing the key does this - but this may not be the event with stable machinery where it
may be essential to insulate the power supply.
Follow Secure Stop:
▪ Before leaving the driver’s seat/operating position;
▪ When anyone else approaches;
▪ Before anyone carries out care, adjustments or deals with a congestion
All of the time make sure the machine has come to rest - remember to let for any ‘run-down’ time
before making any adjustments. Run-down time can change from a few seconds to several
minutes, depending on the machine.
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