Working on a farm is an endless series of chores. The benefit of the work is the freedom of working on the land the way our ancestors have since antiquity. In light of the dangers inherent to farm work, female employees can improve safety without intensive back-breaking labor. Let’s consider the 6 ways how below.
1: Calming Livestock
Women are best suited for calming livestock and building social bonds with the animals on a farm. Caring for animals is part of the maternal instinct which makes women particularly suited.
By employing females to interact with animals on a daily basis, working around these animals becomes safer for everyone. Women are also more attuned to the moods of livestock and pay better attention to details.
Like a dedicated nurse, they are better able to sense when an animal is not feeling well and can provide a greater level of preventative care.
2: Safety Gear Supervision
Men are more likely to risk serious injury by using equipment without proper safety gear. Men should wear fitted leather gloves, boots, and protective eyewear when working on most farm tasks.
When a female is put in charge of safety equipment on a farm, they can ensure that proper safety protocols are being followed and spot dangerous situations before an injury occurs. This is another aspect of their maternal instincts that can make them useful for reducing accidents on a farm.
3: Installing a Tarp System on a Grain Truck
A lot can go wrong when transporting grain. Birds, weather, wind, and vermin can all destroy a shipment before it arrives. Installing a tarp system is the ideal solution. Installing a tarp is not labor intensive and can be managed by female employees alone or supervised by females.
A grain truck tarp provides additional benefits of expediting the drying process, stabilizing the temperature, and reducing the wind drag during transports. This all adds up to improved fuel economy and safer and more efficient transport.
4: Office Management
Women are best suited for managing the daily office activities on a farm because they are better at multitasking than men. Taking orders, scheduling shipments, tracking crops and livestock, and conducting business with phone calls and emails are all light work that women enjoy at a farm.
This allows men to focus on the more laborious aspects of farming and reduces the chances of injuries and accidents. When the male farm hands have to continually deal with business aspects, they can neglect safety protocols in an overwhelming rush to multitask solutions.
5: Learning Paramedic Skills
Women can improve the safety on a farm by learning paramedic skills. In this manner, remote rural areas that lack easy access to hospitals are better prepared for emergencies. Learning CPR and training to handle traumatic experiences, such as poisoning or the loss of a limb in farm equipment, can come in handy.
6: Sign Making
Women can create bright signs to remind workers who enter grain silos, manure pits, and other dangerous areas about confined space entry procedures. The deadly Nitrogen Dioxide gas that can build up in grain silos and the methane in manure pits can be avoided with a gentle reminder.
