Agriculture
Examples of safety hazards that can harm agricultural workers include:
- Lifting, awkward postures, repetitive motion, and other physical stressors
- Contact with animals
- Augers, pumps, PTO shafts, and other equipment with dangerous moving mechanical parts
- Farm vehicles (e.g., tip overs, backing up)
- Confined spaces (e.g., bins, tanks)
- Hazardous chemicals used for cleaning or sanitizing
- Pesticides
- Manure pits (e.g., low oxygen, toxic gases, drowning)
- Electrocution (e.g., contact with buried power lines)
- Uneven or unstable ground that can cause farm vehicle roll-overs
- Equipment noise
Rules
- Agriculture, Safety standards (Chapter 296-307 WAC)
- Agriculture, Safety standards (Spanish) (Chapter 296-307 WAC)
- Cholinesterase Monitoring (WAC 296-307-148)
- Temporary Worker Housing (WAC 296-833)
- Additional requirements to protect occupants in temporary worker housing from 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) exposure (WAC 296-307-16102).
Enforcement Policies
- Cholinesterase Monitoring (DD 33.27)
- Field Sanitation for Agriculture Workers (DD 33.80)
- Pesticides in Agriculture (DD 33.25)
- Sheepherder Housing (DD 33.72)
- WISHA 10 Training for Agriculture (DD 33.95)
Videos
Watch On-Line
DVD's to Borrow
- Agriculture Safety videos
- Amazing Agriculture Machines, Vol. 4
- Heat : A Dangerous Combination / El calor : Una combinación peligrosa
- Think: Make Safe Choices (English/Spanish)
- Video Library - Pesticide Videos
Training
Self-paced
For Groups
- Chemical Hazard Communication (HazCom) Training Kit
- Respiratory Protection Training Kit
- WISHA 10 Training for Agriculture
- Work-Related Asthma (PowerPoint)
Publications, Handouts, Checklists
- Agriculture Safety and Health Pocket Guide (F417-255-000)
- Guía de bolsillo sobre seguridad y salud en agricultura (F417-255-999)(Español)
- ATV Rollover in Agriculture - Hospitalization Alert (SHARP)
- Deadly Hazards of Field Irrigation Circles Hazard Alert
- Peligros mortales de los círculos de riego de campo (Alertas de peligro)
- Heat Related Illness in Agriculture and Forestry
- Ladder Safety Checklist (F417-266-000)
- Pesticide Handler Run Over by Tractor
- Pesticide Spray Tanks and Confined Space Danger Hazard Alert
- Peligros en tanques rociadores de pesticidas y espacios confinados (Alertas de peligro)
- Q&A: Emergency Washing Requirements for Pesticide Handlers (F417-257-000)
- Tractor Safety: Rollover Protection and Seatbelts (F417-234-000)
- Seguridad con los tractores: Protección contra vuelcos y los cinturones de seguridad (F417-234-999) (Spanish)
- Your Daily Record of Hours and Units Worked For Agricultural Workers (F700-169-909) (English/Spanish)
Sample Programs
- Ag Chemical Handling Facility: Small Scale Solutions for your Farm (nrcs.usda.gov)
- Agricultural Operations (osha.gov)
- Agriculture (worksafebc.com)
- Does your labor housing have lead-based paint or asbestos-containing materials? (osha.oregon.gov)
- Migrant Farmworker/Temporary Worker Housing (doh.gov)
- National Ag Safety Database (nasdonline.org)
- Occupational Pesticide Safety and Health (epa.gov)
- Pesticides & Health (deohs.washington.edu)
- Pesticides (DOH) (doh.wa.gov)
- PNASH (Pacific NW Agricultural S&H Center) (deohs.washington.edu)
- Washington State Department of Agriculture (agr.wa.gov)
- Youth in Agriculture (osha.gov)