PPE
personal protective
equipment
PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT
•These things can significantly
reduce the number and severity
of farm accident-related injuries
and illnesses.
Types of Personal Protective Equipment
1. Coverall suit
2. Gloves
3. Boots
4. Goggles and Face shield
5. Hats
6. Respirators
7. Ear plugs
TIpS:
Wear a hard hat when performing construction work, trimming
trees, repairing machinery and doing other jobs where there’s risk of
head injury.
Wear a bump cap for everyday farm tasks.
Wear impact-resistant safety eyewear when doing jobs like dust-
raising or potentially eye damaging types tasks.
TIpS:
• Use a gas mask or chemical cartridge respirator when applying
pesticides or ammonia fertilizers.
• Wear a self-contained breathing device in any place where there
could be toxic fumes or insufficient oxygen.
• Protect hands by wearing gloves or applying barrier cream; however,
don’t wear gloves around machinery moving parts.
TIpS:
• Wear impervious clothing when using toxic or irritating chemicals to
protect skin.
• Use a dust mask or filter respirator when working in dust, spray painting,
or handling moldy forage.
• Use acoustic ear muffs or inserts when operating noisy farm machinery
and power tools.
• Protect feet with safety shoes or boots with slip-resistant soles.
FARMING TOOLS,
IMPLEMENTS,
AND EQUIPMENT
Hand Tools
Are usually light and are used without the help of animals or
machines. They are being used in performing farm activities
which involve small areas like school garden and home garden.
1. Bolo
• Used for cutting tall grasses
and weeds and chopping
branches of trees.
2. Crowbar
• Used for digging big holes
and for digging out big
stones and stumps.
3. Pick-mattock
• Used for digging canals, breaking hard topsoil and for digging up
stones and tree stumps.
5. Spade
6. Shovel
• Used in removing
trash, digging loose soil,
moving soli from one
place to another and
for mixing soil media
• Used for loosening the soil,
digging out root crops and
8. Spading fork turning over the materials in a
compost heap.
9. Light hoe
Used for loosening
and leveling the
soil and digging out
furrows for
planting
10. Hand Trowel
• Used for loosening the soil around
the growing plants and putting
small amount of manure fertilizer
in the soil
11. Hand Cultivator
• Used for cultivating the garden
plot by loosening the soil and
removing weeds around the
plant.
12. Hand Fork
• Used for inter row cultivation
13. Pruning Shear
• For cutting branches of
planting materials and
unnecessary branches of
plants.
14. Axe
• Used for cutting
bigger size post
15. Pruning Knife
• For cutting planting
materials and for
performing other
operations in
horticulture
16. Sprinkler
• Used for watering
seedlings and young
plants
17. Water pail
- used for hauling
water, manure and
fertilizers
• For spraying insecticides, foliar
18. Sprayer fertilizers, fungicides and
herbicides.
Trigger Sprayer
Pressure Sprayer
Knapsack sprayer
19. Wheel barrow
• Used for hauling trash, manures,
fertilizers, planting materials
and other equipment .
20. Sickle and scythe
• A hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically
used for cutting weeds.
21. Post hole digger
• Used for digging holes from small to moderately sized hole especially
in orchard production.
22. Dibble or Dibbler
• Is a tool too help you dig a hole in the soil to plant your seeds or
starter plants into.
23. Germination tray
• Is a tool to help you dig a hole in the soil to plant your seeds or
starter plants into.
IMPLEMENTS
• An accessories which are being pulled by working animals or
mounted to machineries (hand tractor, tractor) which are usually
used in the preparation of land. These are usually made of a special
kind of metal.
1. Plow
• Is specifically used for tilling large areas, making furrows and inter
row cultivation.
Native plow
Disc plow
2. Harrow
• Are used for tilling and pulverizing the soil.
Native wooden harrow
Steel bar harrow
Disc harrow
3. Rotavator
• An implement mounted to a tractor used for tilling and pulverizing
the soil.
EQUIPMENT
• Are machineries used in crop production especially in vegetable
production.
• They are used in land preparation and in transporting farm inputs
and products.
• These equipment need a highly skilled operator to use.
1. Hand Tractor
• Is issued to pull a plow and harrow in preparing a large area of land.
2. Four wheel tractor
• Is used to pull disc plow and disc harrow in preparing much bigger
area of land.
3. Water pump
• Used to draw irrigation water from a source.
4. Rice thresher
• Used to separate rice grain from its hay.
5. Rice harvester
• Used to separate rice grain from its hay.
6. Rice Transplanting Machine
• A specialized transplanter fitted to transplant rice seedlings onto
paddy field
7. Grass Cutter
• Used to trim large area of grass
8. Rice Milling Machine
• It removes the rice husk, polish and sort the rice.
9. Earth Auger
• Used to drill soil by making a hole
10. Power Sprayer
• Ideal for spraying agricultural chemicals and fertilizers on farms,
greenhouses and orchards.
PPE - Personal Protective
Equipment
and
FARM
TOOLS AND
EQUIPMENT
