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from local A«r Teacher*!
Editor’s Note: The article for
this week was prepared by Jess
Erway, teacher of agriculture
and Young Farmer instructor at
Manheim Central High School.
Living Attitudes
We are at the beginning of a
new season where the main
concern is time.
Your job make the best of
that time. Your performance and
that of your workers can vary
from day to day, hour to hour and
job to job, depending on whether
you can maintain a good
relationship with your family
children, wife workers, and so
on.
Also, whether the en
vironmental conditions (heat,
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Thoughts
in Passing
cold, noise, dust, farm chemicals,
humidity and vibrations) affect
you in job performance.
We all have natural charac
teristics and limitations which
must be considered in our ability
to do work safely. They are: body
stature, strength, reach, agility,
learning ability, memory,
reaction, speed, stress reaction,
endurance, emotions, visual and
auditory characteristics. Heavy
demands can overload us leading
to errors or confusion.
By no means do the lack of any
of these keep us from doing our
work, but we need to keep in mind
that each of these limitations
that we possess does tend to limit
us.
Jess R. Erway
For instance, if we forget
where we put the tool box it may
take valuable time to find it for
minor repairs, therefore en
couraging us to hurry with the
baling and therefore placing us
into a frame of mind that is not
always alert, which may cause us
to say after an accident has oc
curred, “I know better than
that.”
This is a list of temporary
situations which may contribute
to an accident. Aggressiveness,
anger, attention-getting,
bereavement, boredom,
discontent, domestic strife,
frustration, inferiority feelings.
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excitement, failure to judge
speed and distance correctly,
hostility, indecision and im
pulsiveness, preoccupation and
personal conflict, resentment,
risk or chance-taking tendencies,
subconscious needs for punish
ment, unwillingness to accept
monotony and routine, illness,
prior injury, durgs or alcolhol.
We might do well to recognize
any of these traits m us which we
prossess and work toward their
correction.
Since we have listed problems,
there must be some way to
overcome them, so I shall list
some favorable factors for safe
30b performance.
1. Training, skill, experence.
2. Knowledge of safety rules,
operating according to in
struction manuals.
3. Ample energy from balanced
diet, enough rest.
4. Normal state of mind.
5. Free from physical disability
or illness that degrades per
formance.
6. Mature enough if youth,
sensible and prudent if older.
7. Capable of functioning under
stress and able to react correctly
in emergency.
8. Ample strength, agility and
endurance.
9. Proper dress along with any
needed personal protective
equipment (respirator, safety
shoes, hand, head and eye
protection, etc.).
10. Have protective devices on
farm equipment protective
frames, crush-resistant cabs,
safety belts, fire extinguishers,
first aid kits, all shields in place,
etc.
We must be aware that oft
times one will accept risk to save
time, save effort, avoid
discomfort attract attention,
assert independence, express
resentment, gain group approval
and just for excitement,
challenge or experimentation. If
any of these motivations seems to
satisfy the person; the more he
will take fie risk that goes with it.
Recognize Youth’s Deficiencies
One of the problems facing
adults is their failure to recognize
that youig children must learn
good habits of safety in order for
them to act safely. Whereas we
will take time to tram our own
children this valuable lesson, it
always : eems a little harder to
spend our time on the fired boy
who in all probability has far less
training around the mechanical
farm world than those raised on
the same farm that they grow up
on.
So time is needed to make him
aware of hazards associated with
the specific location or activity
and he must be made aware of
what could or might happen.
Some may have the motor skills
to operate machinery, yet not
know how to do so safely.
Lack of knowledge of safety
rules, procedures or emergency
responses may make him more
likely to make an accident
producing error or react in
correctly in an emergency
situation. Sometimes he acts
unsafely because he lacks the
skills for the activities un
dertaken He may have enough
knowlede but cannot use the
mental and physical resources
in a precisely coodinated way to
produce a desired result. This
most often occurs in the unex
perienced or young
Age is of little value in a true
assessment of safety but the
Federal government has set a
liability age limit of 16 years.
Which means we have the
responsibility to see that those
under this age are trained in skill
deficiencies to decrease our
liability when we hire him
However, do not forget that
youth, whether our own or
someone elses, should be given
time to enjoy and relax and the
best way to do this is to take time
ourselves It usually pays off by
being a more restful and satisfied
self.
In Norway, it was recently
reported, the government has
adopted a policy whereby far
mers may now claim up to $l4O
for two-weeks vacation!
* Moriarty
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