Q3 M3 - SAFE WORK PRACTICES & PROPER USE OF NURSERY TOOLS & EQUI

The following are ways to improve nursery workplace safety through equipment handling EXCEPT:

• Training your staff on the proper usage of nursery equipment
• Take reasonable care for his or her own health and safety
• Utilizing the right tools and equipment for the right task
• Reduce or eliminate equipment handling risk

A systematic method of checking work activities and studying where things could go wrong in the workplace.

• Risk management
• Hazard Management
• Risk assessment
• Occupational Health and Safety

Who will provide the staff with personal safety equipment like gloves, hats, sunscreen etc. for use while working if the danger/risk cannot be removed?

• Employer
• Employees
• Government
• Health officer

It is considered as the most important tool for a propagator or a nurseryman.

• Secateurs
• Cultivator
• Knife
• Sickle

It is used for breaking of soil clods and separation of medium size soil during preparation of nursery beds or fields.

• Garden fork
• Crowbar
• Weeding fork
• Spade

The following are the duties of workers for nursery equipment handling EXCEPT:

• Take responsible care of his own health and safety
• Take reasonable care that his or her acts or omissions do not adversely affect the health and safety of other persons
• Cooperate with any reasonable policy or procedure of the person conducting the business or understanding relating to health or safety at the workplace that has been notified to workers
• Reduce or eliminate equipment handling risk

It is manually operated by a small trolley, used for carrying nursery plants, compost, fertilizers, leaf litter, horticultural produce, stones, etc. from one place to another place.

• Disc harrow
• Axe
• Bill hook
• Wheelbarrow

It is used for cutting grass and leafy vegetables.

• Bill hook
• Sickle
• Knife
• Axe

It is used for felling trees and cutting branches.

• Bill hook
• Axe
• Sickle
• Knife

A way to improve nursery workplace safety through equipment handling in which personal protective equipment should be provided at hand to reduce risks such as noise and hazardous substances.

• Training your staff on the proper usage of nursery equipment
• Utilizing the right tools and equipment for the right task
• Reduce or eliminate equipment handling risk
• Provide maintenance and inspection on the equipment