Occupational health and safety on farms (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

0-5

Objective

The student understands the significance of occupational safety and knows the occupational safety risks regarding machines, production animals and forest work within the field of agriculture. The student understands the occupational safety factors of physical manual labour. The student understands the occupational safety factors regarding chemicals. The student is familiar with the operational safety bulletin and its significance. The student is familiar with occupational safety and health and knows the essential parts of the occupational safety and health act from the point of view of the employer, regarding both paid work force as well as voluntary work force. The student also is familiar with the statutes of occupational safety and health related to the employee and understands that the employee has the right to turn down dangerous tasks. The student is familiar with the essential protective gear. The student is familiar with occupational health care and the significance of work-related well-being.

Content

Workplace¿s occupational safety and health (employer/employee). Work orientation. The concepts and responsibilities of buyer/supplier. The occupational safety and health act. Stress factors, risk management, machines, production animals, lifting, risk of falls, confined spaces, chemicals. Protecting oneself. Occupational health care. Work-related wellbeing. Occupational safety card (degree progamme students)

Materials

Material for the Farmer's Retirement Agency (MELA) website as specified on the course. (https://www.mela.fi /).
Safety material online as specified on the course (https://ttk.fi/).
Online material of the Occupational Health Institute as specified on the course. (https://www.ttl.fi /).
Laws and key regulations related to occupational safety, where applicable. (www.finlex.fi).
Study material in the online learning environment of the course.

Teaching methods

Exercises and learning tasks are in an online learning environment.

Used in this implementation
- online videos
- reading material in a learning environment
- written learning assignments
- web discussion
- network Tests

Employer connections

Written assignments describe topics related to occupational safety in the farm environment.

Exam schedules

Study assignments and exercises have one actual assessment date and two correction recovery days. There is no exam in the course. Depending on the certificate courses selected, the training may include literature exams, online exams or demonstration-based exams. The dates are announced at the beginning of the course as part of the course schedule.

Student workload

Contact teaching (subject to certificate training), assignments and exercises total 81 h:
- Material exploration, online videos 34 h
- Weekly assignments 10 h
- Exercises 10 h
- Certificate trainings 27 h

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

"1 (adequate) The student knows the basics of occupational safety and health mentioned in the occupational safety and health act. The student understands occupational safety and health factors.

2 (satisfactory) Along with aforementioned, the student is familiar with and acts according to occupational safety and health regulations. The student understands the significance of work-related wellbeing.

3 (good) Along with aforementioned, the student is capable of working in a safe way with machines as well as productions animals and at forest work sites.

4 (very good) Along with aforementioned, the student understands the significance of work orientation from the point of view of both the employee as well as the employer. The student understands the employee¿s as well as the employer¿s responsibilities regarding occupational safety. The student knows responsibilities of both buyers and suppliers.

5 (excellent) Along with aforementioned, the student is able to apply the occupational safety and health act as well as occupational safety and health regulations from the point of view of the employer. The student is able to use occupational health care services both as an employer as well as an employee.
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Qualifications

LMSE0100 Kotieläintilan käytäntö

Further information

Automated exercises in the e-learning environment provide feedback immediately after completing the task. Feedback on written assignments is provided as comments on the e-learning environment during the course. The assessment is based on quantitative and qualitative criteria based on knowledge objectives.