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Identifying rural safety hazards activity

The purpose of this activity is for you to walk around your school, farm or workplace, look carefully and try to see if you can identify any safety hazards. Then you will need to think about and discuss what strategies you could use to alter or control the hazards that you have identified.

Any hazards that you find need to be reported to the employer/supervisor and recorded. All the proposed strategies need to be listed.

The different sections of the workplace that can be observed carefully are:

The farm workshop
The chemical store
Animals on the farm
The farm machinery shed

Answers have not been provided for this activity because each workplace is different. You may wish to discuss your answers with a teacher, parent/guardian or another student.

The farm workshop

Tools & Equipment	Possible Hazards	Strategies
Example Chainsaw	Without a guard it can cause injury.	Make sure a guard is placed on the blade when not in use.

The chemical store

Chemical name	Possible hazards	Strategies
Example Round Up (Herbicide)	If left on an open shelf, can spill or be taken by the wrong hands (ie, children)	Needs to be placed in a locked chemical store after each use.

Farm animals

Animals on property	Possible hazards	Strategies
1. Cattle
2. Goats
3. Horses
4. Sheep

The farm machinery shed

Machinery & vehicles	Possible hazards	Strategies
Tractor(s)
ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) Ride-on
Trailer
Spreader
Slasher
Rotary Hoe (PTO – Power Take Off)

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