|
Arizona, with its many cotton, citrus and melon fields, can create unwitting safety hazards for workers across the state. By observing some precautions while working around high voltage power lines, you may save your farm equipment, your harvest and maybe even your life. APS advises that workers follow the following precautions:
- Avoid parking or staging machinery near or under power lines. You must maintain a minimum 10-foot working clearance between these high voltage power lines, which includes your equipment.
- Make certain you and other workers are well clear of lines before raising the hopper.
- Make it a part of your daily work routine to identify and remind each other about overhead electric lines
- Become familiar with state and federal safety regulations relating to minimum clearances for persons, tools, equipment and machinery while working near high voltage power lines.
APS also advises that as larger, more efficient farm machinery becomes commonplace in agribusiness, an added work hazard may be created in fields bordered or crossed by power lines.
Familiar everyday activities, such as loading cotton trailers or handling long lengths of irrigation pipe can become safety hazards when performed near these high voltage power lines. Farmers who have questions about required clearances or need assistance should call APS at (602) 371-7171 in the Phoenix area, or (800) 253-9405.
More Safety Tips
|
|
|
