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 What I Know

Pre-Test

Multiple Choice

Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen
letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Which among the following materials is not used during the

spraying of pesticides and herbicides?
a. bolo
b. mask
c. boots
d. head protector/head gear

2. Which among the following place is the proper storage of

extra amount of chemicals?
a. uncovered trash bins
b. reachable cabinet of children
c. buried close to the water source
d. Cabinet those children can’t reach, away from the food
supply and properly sealed.

3. Which among the following statement is true?

a. The empty galloon of pesticides and herbicides are
advisable for water container.
b. It is safe to take cigarettes while spraying chemicals.
c. After 6 hours of spraying chemicals the area is safe to
be explored.
d. The empty container of chemicals should be disposed
properly and avoid using specially for food purposes.

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 4. What is the purpose of gloves?
a. Gloves is used for additional paraphernalia.
b. Gloves is used to produce sweat during work.
c. Gloves is used to compliment with the handle of
sprayer.
d. Gloves is used to avoid contact with the chemicals.

5. What is the use of Jacket or long sleeves cloth?

a. It is used to produce sweat during work.
b. It is used for additional paraphernalia.
c. It is used to avoid mosquitoes.
d. It is used to avoid contact with the chemicals.

What’s New

ACTIVITY NO. 1

In your paper, write your ideas why we need to

wear that particular PPE when performing that task.

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 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN USING
Lesson
TOOLS AND MATERIALS

CHECK UP AND REPAIR OF TOOLS AND MATERIALS

LO 2. APPLY APPROPRIATE SAFETY MEASURES

2.1 Use tools and materials according to specifications and
procedures
2.2 Wear outfits according to farm requirements.

Agriculture is the producers of the countries food, everything

we eat is the product of sacrifice and hard labor of the workers.
Growing population means higher needs of the product. The
natural nutrients in the field are slowly depleted and the birth of
the new pest threatens the percentage of supply. The event of
food shortage is unavoidable.

The old ways of farming which use simple ways and tools
like animals and bolo without pesticides and fertilizers. It should
be upgraded to meet the population’s demands. Through the
evolution of time chemicals and materials used by the farmer are
getting complicated. Due to technology and invention, the old
ways are being replaced. Farming became complex and
procedures of equipment need to be followed. The safety of the
worker became at stake in the present.

Handling highly poisonous chemicals in the farm should be

deal seriously. These chemicals are fatal, if protection is
neglected and safety procedure is violated. The hazard of
machine in the work place is growing due to uneducated used
and failure to follow safety procedures. In this manner to identify
hazard and its corresponding maintenance task are important to
lessen the damage to workers.

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 What’s In

Materials in the farm today are too complicated compared to

the old days. Before we can work in the farm without protection
like mask and gloves, since chemicals are not practiced in
farming before. Personal protective equipment are significant for
the worker to stay healthy and productive. Proper disposal of the
materials like chemicals should be followed to avoid
contamination and being poison.

What Is It

Personal protective equipment (PPE).

Any equipment which protects the worker from a health and

safety risk. In the work place handling chemicals and equipment’s
are usual. Agricultural worker may exposed to chemicals, such as
pesticides, veterinary drugs, solvents, and oils which might in a
long-term cause asthma, skin problems, harm the nervous system
or even cancer. The reaction of the molecules when it is on full
contact to the human body is harmful. Pesticides and herbicides
are design to hinder pest and herbs excluding us. Pest and herbs
are organic matter like humans. The chemical composition of the
chemicals are to supress the subject. But workers are humans
and organic matter, so worker are also vulnerable to toxicity.
Manipulating machines in the work place are hazardous to
worker, in a blink of an eye some parts can be faulty. PPE is the

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barrier between worker and hazardous chemicals and machines
in the work place.

Below are list of Personal Protective Equipment and its

uses

Types of Uses of PPE’s

PPE’s
1.Face It is use to avoid to inhale hazardous chemicals
Mask and dust in the work place.
To keep lungs of worker healthy
2.Eye It is used to void dust and chemicals to enter the
gaggles eyes.
To prevent sands to enter the eyes.
3. Ear To protect eardrum from excessive noise in the
protection work place.
4. Gloves To avoid contact of chemicals and other sharp
materials in the work place.
Gloves use even handling hot objects.
5.Head gear Used to avoid contact with the chemicals and
protect head from falling debris in the work
place.
6. Safety Used to avoid contact with the chemicals and
boots protect foot from falling debris and sharp objects
in the work place
7.Long Used to avoid contact with the chemicals and
sleeves and protect body from sharp objects and radiation in
pants the work place
8.Soap Used to clean wounds and disinfect. To wash
away toxic chemicals if in case have contact with
skin.

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Handling and Disposal of Poisonous chemicals.

These are steps and procedures provided by the

manufacturer to its client to avoid being harm. Harmful chemicals
should be treated at outmost concerned since it could end life at
instant if proper medical needs is not meet then chemicals can
contaminate food and water supply.

Below are Methods in handling and Disposal of

Poisonous chemicals.

1. Use PPE’s Personal protective equipment

2. DO NOT TAKE OR DRINK alcoholic drinks 24 hours before
handling during application and up to 48 hours after handling
or application.
3. Store in original container tightly closed.
4. Away from food and water supply.
5. While mixing used PPEs.
6. Avoid skin contact and inhalation of spray mist or dust.
7. Wash hands and exposed skin with plenty of soap and water
before eating and after work.
8. Dispose empty container safely by putting in the hole with
cover and far from bodies of water.
9. Avoid using empty gallon for water storage.
10. Extra chemicals should be sealed tightly and put in the
safe cabinet away from reach of children and away from
food container and water.

Hazard in handling, transporting and maintenance of

equipment’s.

In the work place the hazard is high. Maintenance activities

in agriculture are various and include the maintenance of both
machinery and infrastructure, and the task range from oil and filter
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changes, battery charging and replacement, lubrication. Clearing
blockages and maintenance of hydraulic systems and tractors.
Maintenance of roofs and glasshouse, silos, slurry tanks, bins and
grain tanks and electric fences and roads. Farmers often carry out
a lot of maintenance work by themselves. This applies to routine
maintenance like general repair work as well as day-to-day
maintenance. Financial pressures lead to a situation in which
farmers choose the do-it-yourself approach instead of paying a
specialist contractor. This increases the risk of accidents because,
on the one hand, the farmer may not have competences in
maintenance and on the other, machines and vehicles in
agriculture are becoming more and more sophisticated, thus
requiring qualification in maintenance and repair. Because of the
wide variety of tasks, there are many different hazards involved.

Below are the list of hazard.

1. Mechanical hazard
2. Electrical Hazard
3. Thermal hazard
4. Noise
5. Vibration
6. Hazard associated with materials and substances
7. Ergonomic Hazard
8. Unexpected start-up, unexpected
9. Working in confined spaces
10. Slip, strips and falls.

Below are table of hazard and its corresponding Maintenance

task

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 Hazard Maintenance Tasks
1 Mechanical
hazards
1.1 Crushing  Related to use of various types of machinery,
hazard equipment and tools during maintenance
 Maintenance of machinery, movable
installations and tools, animal care
1.2 Shearing  Related to use of various types of machinery,
hazard equipment and tools during maintenance
 Maintenance of machinery, movable
installations and tools
1.3 Cutting or  Related to use of sharpened tools and
severing machinery and sharpened working tools during
hazard maintenance
 Maintenance of hand tools, machinery with
sharpened working tools, installations containing
sharp edges
 Work on fragile roofs such as glasshouses or
sky lights
1.4 Entanglement  Related to use of various types of machinery,
hazard equipment and powered tools during
maintenance
 Maintenance of machinery with power
transmission
 Maintenance of fences and electrical fences
1.5 Drawing-in or  Related to use of various types of machinery,
trapping equipment and powered tools during
hazard maintenance
 Maintenance of machinery with power
transmission
1.6 Impact  Related to use of various types of machinery,
hazard equipment and tools during maintenance
 Maintenance of movable installations,
equipment with folding elements, compressed

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 parts (such as springs), animal care
1.7 Stabbing or  Related to use of pointed tools and materials
puncture during maintenance
hazard  Maintenance of equipment with pointed parts,
animal care
1.8 Friction or  Related to use of various types of machinery,
abrasion equipment and tools during maintenance
hazard  Maintenance of machinery, movable
installations and tools, animal care
1.9 High-  Related to use of machinery, equipment and
pressure fluid tools with hydraulic components during
injection or maintenance,
ejection  Cleaning with high pressure cleaner
hazard  Maintenance of equipment with hydraulic
components

2 Electrical hazards
2.1 Contact of persons  Related to use of electrical equipment
with live parts during maintenance
(direct contact)  Maintenance of electrical equipment
 Maintenance of electrical installations in
buildings and stables
 Repair of broken electrical fences
2.2 Contact of persons  Related to use of electrical equipment
with parts which during maintenance
have become live  Maintenance of non-electrical equipment
because of a fault which has become live (such as during
or through human flooding or a lightning strike, or through
error human error)
(indirect contact)  Maintenance of electrical equipment
2.3 Approach to live  Related to use of cranes or similar lifting
parts under high equipment during maintenance
voltage  Maintenance of building parts close to
overhead power lines

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  Maintenance of electrical installations in
buildings and stables
2.4 Thermal radiation  Related to use of electrical equipment
or other thermal during maintenance
phenomena such  Maintenance of electrical equipment
as the projection of
molten particles
and chemical
effects from short
circuits, overloads,
etc.
3 Thermal hazards
3.1 Burns, scalds and  Related to use of welding or heating
other injuries equipment during maintenance
through contact  Maintenance of equipment with hot
with objects or surfaces or hot operating fluids
materials with an
extremely high or
low temperature,
from flames or
explosions and
also from radiation
of heat sources
3.2 Exposure to strong  Maintenance tasks performed outdoor, in
sunlight, high or heat or cold (maintenance of buildings,
low ambient roofs, and all outside facilities)
temperature

4 Noise
4.1 Sudden loud noise  Maintenance tasks performed in a
or constant noisy environment next to agricultural
exposure to a lot of machinery and vehicles, equipment or

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 noise, where powered tools
health outcomes  Maintenance of farm buildings
may be hearing involving the use of noisy electrical
loss, loss of tools such as circular saws or
balance, loss of compressors
awareness of
events in the
surrounding
environment
4.2 Accidents due to  Maintenance tasks performed in a
interference with noisy environment (for instance, use
speech of machinery, equipment or powered
communication tools, working in noisy premises or
and near a source of noise)
acoustic warning
signals
5 Vibration
5.1 Hand arm or whole  Related to use of various machinery,
body vibration equipment and powered tools during
maintenance
6 Hazards
associated with
materials and
substances
6.1 Hazards from  Related to use of dangerous
contact with, or substances during maintenance
inhalation, of  Maintenance of equipment containing
harmful fluids, dangerous substances (machines and
gases, mists, implements for plant protection and
fumes and dusts pest control)
 Maintenance tasks related to
formation of dangerous substances
(for instance, repair, cleaning,
lubrication, greasing, welding)
 Maintenance, repair and cleaning of

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 silos, grain bins, and slurry tanks

6.2 Fire or explosion  Maintenance of facilities containing

hazard dangerous and explosive substances
such as tanks, bins and silos
 Maintenance of equipment containing
dangerous and explosive substances,
such as fuel tanks
 Maintenance tasks related to
formation of dangerous substances
(for instance, repair, cleaning,
lubrication, greasing, welding etc.)
 Maintenance of gas installation (for
instance, gas stoves, gas heating
systems)
6.3 Biological hazard  Animal care, maintenance of
installations contaminated by
biological agents
 Maintenance of slurry tanks
 Maintenance of ditches and sewage
treatment
 Maintenance of liquid manure vehicles
and tanks
 Waste disposal

7 Ergonomic
Hazards
7.1 Awkward postures  Related to long working in
uncomfortable postures, handling
loads, using excessive effort for
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 unscrewing/screwing etc. when
performing maintenance tasks such
as
 Repair and maintenance of vehicles
and equipment
 Maintenance of stables and buildings
 Maintenance of confined spaces such
as silos, tanks and bins
7.2 Poorly designed  Inadequate consideration of hand–
tools arm or foot–leg anatomy
 Related to use of various types of
machinery, equipment and tools
during maintenance
 Maintenance of machinery, movable
installations and tools
8 Unexpected start-  overrun/over speed
up, unexpected
9 Working in
confined spaces
9.1 Exhaust  Maintenance of silos, bins and tanks
gases/lack of  Maintenance work in workshops and
oxygen rooms
without enough ventilation
9.2 Entrapment and  Maintenance of silos, grain bins and
suffocation tanks
10 Slips, trips and  Slips, trips and falls may happen in all
falls maintenance tasks
10.1 Working at height  Maintenance of buildings (using
ladders scaffolds)
 Maintenance of roofs and fragile roofs
 Maintenance of machinery
10.2 Slippery floor or  Maintenance work in workshop
Uneven path  Maintenance of building and stables
 Maintenance of farmyards

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10.3 Insufficient lighting  Maintenance of buildings and stables
 Maintenance of farmyard at night
 Maintenance tasks in workshops

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What’s More

Activity 2. Familiarizing Personal protective equipment’s

(PPE’s) and its usage

There are ways on how to understand and familiarize the

personal protective equipment’s and its usage. First is to match
column A with column B then. Second is explaining the
importance of Personal protective equipment’s.

Learning the skill number 1: Match column A with B and write

your answer in the Answer Column.

1. Find the clue that can make you decide that the
corresponding definition is correct.
2. If you’re not sure with your clue, then proceed to the next
item which you’re sure.
3. The item and the choice left after you arrived with the correct
match. The remaining items are having a higher percentage
of having a correct match.
4. Write your answer in the separate sheet of paper.

Answer Column A Column B

column
1.Face A Used to clean wounds and disinfect.
Mask To wash away toxic chemicals if in
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 case have contact with skin.
2.Eye B It is used to void dust and chemicals
goggles to enter the eyes.
To prevent sands to enter the eyes.
3. Ear C To protect eardrum from excessive
protectio noise in the work place.
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4. Gloves D To avoid contact of chemicals and
other sharp materials in the work
place.
Gloves use even handling hot
objects.
5.Head E Used to avoid contact with the
gear chemicals and protect head from
falling debris in the work place.
6. Safety F Used to avoid contact with the
boots chemicals and protect foot from
falling debris and sharp objects in
the work place
7.Long G Used to avoid contact with the
sleeves chemicals and protect body from
and sharp objects and radiation in the
pants work place
8.Soap H It is use to avoid to inhale hazardous
chemicals and dust in the work
place.
To keep lungs of worker healthy

Learning the skill number 2: Explain the importance of

Personal protective equipment’s

1. Look at the table above the column A and B make sure

that you have a correct pairing.

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 2. Connect the idea or definition in the column B and make a
paragraph.
3. That is the importance of PPE’s personal protection
equipment’s.
4. Write your answer in your paper, follow the format below.

____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________
_________________________________________.

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 Assessment

Post-Test

Multiple Choice.

Direction: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen
letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. What is the function of Personal protective equipment’s?

a. Any equipment which protects the worker from a health and
safety risk.
b. Materials that can add posture to the worker.
c. Materials that can improve chemical reaction.
d. new generation looks

2. Which among the following does not belong to the group?

a. glove
b. eye gaggle
c. head gear
d. lipstick

3. What is the purposed of mask?

a. To avoid the worker inhale the dust fume of chemicals, then
to keep lungs healthy.
b. To conceal the face of the worker.
c. To entice co-worker.
d. It’s a part for looking good.

4. Identify the purpose of eye goggles?

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 a. It is used to void dust and chemicals to enter the eyes, to
prevent sands to enter the eyes.
b. Used to conceal the eye of the worker.
c. To improve the chemical validity.
d. for good looks

5. Pinpoint the function of the Safety boots.

a. Used to avoid contact with the chemicals and protect foot
from falling debris and sharp objects in the work place.
b. To add extra poise of the worker.
c. To improve speed of the worker.
d. increase chemical reaction

6. What is the function of Head gear?

a. Used to avoid contact with the chemicals and protect head
from falling debris in the work place.
b. To add extra poise of the worker.
c. To conceal the head of the worker.
d. increase chemical reaction

Additional Activities

Situational activity

Assuming that you have a 5 hectares irrigated rice fields.

Maintenance in pest control and weeds are needed. You are
planning to spray chemicals on the following day.

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Write what are the things to be considered before and after you
work in your rice fields.

Before I spray, what are the things I should prepare? Write

as many as you can.

Write your answer in the separate sheet of paper.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

After I spray, what are the things I should do. Write as many
as you can.

Write your answer in the separate sheet of paper.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

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 Answer Key

PRE-TEST
1. A
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. D

Assessment

1. A
2. D
3. A
4. A
5. A
6. A

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