80—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1976
OSHA skit written
by farm women
Regulations of the Oc
cupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA)
affect all persons luring one
or more employees, in
cluding farmer employers.
Because it’s important that
every farmer hiring em
ployees be aware of his
obligations under the law,
the Women’s Committee of
York County Farmers’
Association presented, in a
light-hearted, heavy-handed
way, the facts farmers need
to know as employers to
comply with the law.
OSHA has not only the
power to approve
regulations regarding
employees, but also has the
necessary power to enforce
the rules. And every farmer
employer is obligated to
understand his respon
sibilities under the new
regulations affecting him.
At several spring
meetings, members from the
women’s committee have
become acquainted with
regulations that affect
farmers. More information
can be obtained from the
May issue of THE VOICE of
Organized Agriculture, the
PFA Office, Camp Hill, your
county Boardmen or In
formation Director Gail
McPherson, New Park.
Pennsylvania is ripe for
inspections this summer.
Labor camp checks began
last summer. Voluntary
compliance with the OSHA
regulations should benefit
family members as well as
employees. If you don’t
bother to get informed about
OSHA, though, you might
end up like Sorry Sally in the
melodrama that premiered
before the 75 ladies attending
York County Farmers’
Associationa Ladies’ Day
Out May 6, at Avalong Dairy
Farms, York.
Sony Sally, unprepared,
oblivious to her obligations
under the law, laughs off the
warning of OSHA Annie,
special agent for PFA who is
establishing good relations
between the agency and
farmers by putting an axe to
myths and misinformation
about OSHA. She has also
been helping regulatory
writers pare down their rules
to a more reasonable level.
OSHA Sam, the dreaded
villain, however, catches
Sorry Sally, in the con
promising position of
needing a bandaid for her
finger and turns the place
upside-down looking for
hazards.
Of course, Sony Sally has
never heard of OSHA
recordkeeping; she has no
poster posted, no hard hats,
no tractor stickers, nothing
Sam’s eagle eyes are
scouring the farm for.
Annie comes to the rescue
with some common sense.
When Sam whips out his
telephone book size
regulation book, she tells
MEETS
IS
LDHft
Gail McPherson as Sorry Sally, reformed and
ready to meet all farm hazards, waves her record
keeping book while OSHA Annie takes the meat
saw to OSHA Sam. Annie, Joyce Bupp, cuts the
famous and dreaded villain down to size answering
the questions; What does every farmer need to
know? What does every farm-employer need to
know? What do some farm-employers need to
know?
him to hold on, pops him on
the operating table and takes
a meat saw to his formitable
self, cutting him down to
size.
She gives Sally all the
information she needs to
know about the poster she
needs, machinery guards,
roll-over protection bars on
new tractors, accident and
illness recordkeeping, safety
instructions and tractor
stickers.
The conflict between Sam
and Sally has a suprise
ending. To find out what
happens, how and why, book
the melodrama for your next
farm meeting. You may
never see an OSHA inspector
on your farm. He may show
up tomorrow. If he does,
what will he find? Will you be
ready for him? This drama
will help you know what to
do.
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Annville, PA 17003
Phone 867-1083
Susan Gross, the friendly compliance officer who
arrives at a reasonable time to search in a
reasonable manner answers the question, what is
OSHA with, “Our Savior Has Arrived!”
With the assistance of Mary Marsteller, these
York County Farmers’ Association women are
ready to tour their 30-minute production to per
form before other farm audiences as part of the
Safety Sub-Committee project for PFA to inform all
farmer members of their responsibilities under the
new OSHA regulations.
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