MVP Safety Professionals offers a variety of safety programs including Pesticide Safety, Injury Illness Prevention, Heat Illness Prevention, Respiratory Protection and Hazard Communication. MVP Safety Professionals’ programs assist growers in developing written plans and organized filing systems for the numerous programs required by the California Occupational Health and Safety Administration (Cal OSHA) and the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR).
OSHA defines confined spaces as those spaces which are:
These types of spaces are common in agricultural settings and each year, there are many deaths associated with working in confined spaces. Cal OSHA requires that companies with confined spaces write and implement written plans, train their employees on confined spaces operating and safety procedures.
MVP Safety Professionals is available to assist growers in writing their confined spaces plans and to provide training to employees about this topic.
It is the responsibility of each company to assess the hazards at their operation sites. Each company must record these assessments, fix those hazards. MVP Safety Professionals is available to assist agriculturalists with their hazard assessment programs by providing on-site visits and sequential reviews.
Contact MVP Safety Professionals for a headquarter inspection or a customized hazard assessment. Each step you take toward compliance, the safer your operation will be.
Virtually all agricultural settings have hazardous chemicals on property. This includes insecticides and herbicides, flammable and combustible liquids and gasses, among other toxic substances. Employers are responsible for training their employees on chemical hazards, which includes a variety of topics.
MVP has trainings available for both owners and employees on Hazard Communication, a required component of Injury Illness Prevention Plans.
One component of a company’s Injury Illness and Prevention Program is to have an implemented Heat Illness Prevention Plan. There are several components to this detailed plan that must be implemented:
MVP Safety Professionals is pleased to offer a comprehensive Heat Illness Prevention program and training plan.
For heat illness prevention written plans and trainings, contact MVP Safety Professionals.
Federal and California OSHA requires that each company that works with electrical, mechanical, static and other forms of energy, create and implement a lock-out/tag-out program. This written program consists of several components, which are site specific. Lockout/Tagout programs are a required component of Injury Illness and Prevention Plans.
Injury Illness and Prevention Programs are to be set in place by companies who have employees. How these plans are written and implemented depends on the number of employees in the company. These plans have many required components including emergency procedures, trainings, safety meetings, specialized written procedures, etc.
MVP will work with you to create a customized program that will meet the needs of your company.
The Department of Pesticide Regulation and Cal OSHA have certain requirement in place to protect both your employees and the environment. These regulations are quite specific. MVP Safety Professionals is available to set up a user-friendly pesticide safety program, which includes pesticide handler and fieldworker trainings, label trainings, field monitoring and regular reviews of the written materials.
“Worker safety is a priority! Regulatory compliance is required! Without them both, we wouldn’t have a farming operation!”
~Yolo California Farmer~
For human safety, many chemicals require that applicators wear respirators when performing certain duties. This may include pesticide application, painting, working in dusty areas, etc. In brief, the following components are part of a Respiratory Protection Program:
Along with fit-testing, Respiratory Protection Plans are required by any company whose employees utilize respirators. Contact MVP to schedule fit testing or assistance in developing your customized Respiratory Protection Plan.
Numerous trainings are available to growers and others in the agriculture industry. Offered in both English and Spanish, these trainings not only educate and remind employees about safe practices, but they also help growers meet regulatory safety requirements.
OSHA defines confined spaces as those spaces which are:
These types of spaces are common in agricultural settings and each year, there are many deaths associated with working in confined spaces. Cal OSHA requires that companies with confined spaces write and implement written plans, train their employees on confined spaces operating and safety procedures.
MVP Safety Professionals is available to assist growers in writing their confined spaces plans and to provide training to employees about this topic.
MVP Safety Professionals offers adult first aid/CPR certification trainings which meets the Cal OSHA, Title 8 Regulation 3439. It states, “There shall be at least 1 employee for every 20 employees at any remote location with training for the administering of emergency first aid.”
When and Where? The location is up to you. With a minimum of 5 people, MVP will train at your location if you are able to provide an adequate space for training. MVP can also arrange for you to come to its headquarters in Woodland. If MVP must travel more than 50 miles one way from its main office in Woodland, a travel fee will be added. If required travel is more than 100 miles one way, a travel fee of $50 will be assessed.
Who? Employers, employees and their families and colleagues. Must be 12 years of age or older.
Number of Participants: Each session must have a minimum of 5 participants, but no more than 9.
Languages: English and Spanish; one language per training session.
Certification: Certification is valid for two years and is taught by a certified American Heart Association trainer.
The use of forklifts in most agricultural operations is necessary and their uses are very diverse.
Annual forklift safety training is required for all persons who use forklifts in agriculture. This includes those who use forklifts in typical agricultural operations.
It is the responsibility of each agricultural company to determine whether forklift safety certification is required for its operation. If the operation falls into Cal OSHA’s definition of “agricultural operation,” then formal forklift safety certification is not required. The definition of “agricultural operation” is defined in CCR Title 8, Section 3437 as follows:
“All operations necessary to farming in all of its branches, including maintenance of machinery or other facilities, and the planting, cultivation or growing, keeping for sale, harvesting, transporting on the farm or to the first place of processing, any tree, plant, animal, fowl, fish, insecti or products thereof.”
This being said, Cal OSHA and Federal OSHA strongly encourage all who use a forklift to be forklift safety certified, especially those who train others on safe forklift operation. The certification program consists of three components and must be performed at the site where the forklift is used. MVP Safety Professionals offers forklift certification for counter-balance, narrow aisle and pallet jack forklifts. The certifications are valid for three years.
In California, all people including owners who operate forklifts in an agricultural setting are required to have a forklift safety training prior to opertating a forklift at a company and then once annually thereafter.
Contact MVP for further clarification on the training and/or certification requirements.
MVP Safety now provides the required 2 -hour Harassment Prevention Training for Supervisors and the 1-hour Employee Non-Supervisor Harassment Prevention Training.
Who needs the training?
California employers with 5 or more employees are required by law to provide two hours of sexual harassment and abusive conduct prevention training to all supervisors and one hour of such training to nonsupervisory employees once every two years and with in six months of hire or promotion. The training is required by January of 2020 and every two years there after.
Check our Upcoming Events page to register for the next scheduled class.
Virtually all agricultural settings have hazardous chemicals on property. This includes insecticides and herbicides, flammable and combustible liquids and gasses, among other toxic substances. Employers are responsible for training their employees on chemical hazards, which includes a variety of topics.
MVP has training’s available for both owners and employees on Hazard Communication, a required component of Injury Illness Prevention Plans.
One component of a company’s Injury Illness and Prevention Program is to have an implemented Heat Illness Prevention Plan. There are several components to this detailed plan that must be implemented:
MVP Safety Professionals is pleased to offer a comprehensive Heat Illness Prevention program and training plan.
For heat illness prevention written plans and trainings, contact MVP Safety Professionals.
Annually, employers are responsible for conducting safety training sessions on each piece of equipment an employee will use. These trainings must be documented. MVP Safety Professionals provides safety training on numerous types of farm equipment including ATVs, tractors, harvesters, etc. MVP Safety Professionals works with your operation to customize the trainings for particular pieces of equipment.
Federal and California OSHA requires that each company that works with electrical, mechanical, static and other forms of energy, create and implement a lock-out/tag-out program. This written program consists of several components, which are site specific. Lockout/Tagout programs are a required component of Injury Illness and Prevention Plans.
The Department of Pesticide Regulation and Cal OSHA have certain requirement in place to protect both your employees and the environment. These regulations are quite specific. MVP Safety Professionals is available to set up a user-friendly pesticide safety program, which includes pesticide handler and fieldworker trainings, label trainings, field monitoring and regular reviews of the written materials.
“Worker safety is a priority! Regulatory compliance is required! Without them both, we wouldn’t have a farming operation!”
~Yolo California Farmer~
Besides Implement Safety, your Injury Illness Prevention Program requires that your employees have other types of safety training annually. MVP Safety Professionals provides the trainings listed below along with customized trainings that fit your particular needs:
MVP Safety Professionals’ goal is to efficiently and effectively provide agricultural producers with the services they need to run a safe workplace. It takes pride in providing customized services that meet the specific needs of each operation. From specialized trainings to customized written and organizational plans, growers appreciate the knowledge MVP brings to regulatory compliance.
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