Course Duration
50 minutes
Price
Take this course, and 100+ others, with our membership for $4.00 per user, per month.
Course Summary
Our Agricultural Worker training discusses health and safety issues for the agricultural workers and how to minimize or eliminate hazards and risks in the workplace.
Agricultural workers can be injured, become ill, or even be killed due to their work. This course will provide best practices in agricultural industries reduce work-related fatalities, illness, and injuries.
Course Outline
About the agricultural worker
- What is an agricultural worker
- Benefits of managing risks
- Hazards of farming
- Causes of death
- Injuries
- Illness
- Unsanitary conditions
Health and safety hazards
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Respiratory illnesses
- Zoonoses
- Chemical hazards
- Noise
- Skin problems
- Stress from heat and cold
- Building work
- Farm vehicles
- Machinery
- Heights
- Livestock
- Electricity
- Workplace safety
- Hazards for youth
- Chainsaws
Minimizing Disease, Illness and Health Issues
- Musculoskeletal injury
- Respiratory illnesses
- Zoonoses
- Chemical hazards
- Noise
- Skin problems
- Stress from heat and cold
Hazard control measures
- Engineering controls
- Personal protective equipment
- Safe practices
- Handling
- Refilling
- Disposal
Overcoming safety hazards
- Vehicle use
- Machinery
- Heights
- Livestock
- Electricity
- Youth safety hazards
- Building work
- Chainsaws
Regulations and responsibilities
- Protection of workers
- Canadian regulations on work at hot and cold temperatures
- Complaints
- Violations
- Employer responsibilities
- Immigrants
Who Needs Agricultural Worker Training?
The course is for personnel who are workers and supervisors in the agricultural industry.