
Organic BlackGram (Step 11)
Occupational health and safety
Occupational health and safety
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Children below the age of 14 should not be employed in any work.
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Children below 18 years should not be allowed to undertake dangerous and hazardous work.
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Children should not be exposed to work which physically or psychologically or sexually abuse them.
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Educate everyone in your village and make sure that they send their children to school.
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Don’t employ any worker in the farm based on bond or for debt and also not against his/her consent.
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Never abuse a worker and his/her family physically, verbally, and/or sexually, and treat all the workers equally.
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Don’t ask any worker to deposit any amount or original documents or valuables before employment.
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Pay a minimum wage to workers based on local law. Don’t hold the payment to the worker on any grounds beyond the prescribed payment date.
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Don’t allow any worker to work in a hazardous work environment like handling and spraying of CPA, without a proper PPE kit and prior training.
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Don’t allow pregnant women, Children, and Adolescents to handle CPAs.
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After the application of CPAs don’t allow anyone to enter the field before the prescribed re-entry time. Make sure that you keep first aid items in the reach of any emergency. The workers are entitled to take leaves and given holidays on national holidays and festivals.
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