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Asaja Murcia publishes a manual on line on preventive measures and the protection of plant protection products
23/12/2010
December 23, 2010
Asaja Murcia, together with the Institute of occupational safety and health in the region of Murcia, and classic engineering and security, has developed a manual on line of preventive measures, protection of plant protection products and personal protective equipment, to develop programmes of grants and scholarships in matters of occupational risk prevention. In agricultural activity, the farmer is exposed to a lot of risk due to lack of information that exists at the level of exploitation, mainly in the field of prevention of occupational hazards in agriculture and livestock.
As a result, from Murcia Asaja was carried out this initiative to set up a manual on line of preventive measures, protection of plant protection products and personal protective equipment, as well as the distribution of stickers of risks specific to raise awareness in this regard. The objective is, in the words of the Secretary-General of this agricultural professional organization, Alfonso Gálvez Caravaca, that "farmers and ranchers in the region of Murcia are as informed as possible on the prevention of occupational risks and, most importantly"", to be heard to resolve the problems that they themselves detected on farms."
