What Will You Learn?

• In this course you will learn:
• In this module, we are going to assist a farmer to….
• Establish a plan for the monitoring, safe use and maintenance of equipment, implements, technology and infrastructure.
• What is…?
• A plan: It’s a carefully worked out scheme of action.
• Monitoring: It’s an apparatus for checking the work of other people.
• Safe use: It’s the use of something without harm to yourself or others.
• Maintenance: It’s the prolongation and upkeep of something.
• Equipment: It’s something necessary for a particular purpose.
• Implements: It’s a tool or instrument to carry out a specific task.
• Technology: It’s the science dealing with industrial art or methods.
• Infrastructure: It’s the fixed/permanent assets of a farm.
• In other words, you, the learner, must be able to work out a plan of action with which you can check the work of others and at the same time implement occupational safety measures.
• For this Unit Standard, we will use an estate as an example as it includes a broad spectrum of ongoing activities on a farm.