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🚜🔬📊 Check out our latest blog post on the five most popular farm safety trainings of 2024! 🌾👩🌾 Our data analysis on @harvust shows that growers are prioritizing their employees' training needs, but there is still room to listen and learn from farmworkers. Let's work together to keep our workers safe and informed. #agriculture #HR #farmsafety #harvust #datapower #empoweringfarmers

🚫 Are you filling out the Form I-9 for your employees? Make sure to avoid these common mistakes and learn from others' horror stories. From forging signatures to neglecting H-2A workers, our latest blog post shares 10 things NOT to do when completing the I-9. #agriculture #HR #compliance

The biggest problem when it comes to discipline in agriculture is the problem you don’t know you have. I’ve heard from several HR managers about their “top of funnel” problem where they know their supervisors aren’t writing people up, because they hear about it from other workers. Leaving the question: “what am I not hearing about…” Without broadly collecting employee issue data it’s: - challenging to intervene early before the issue escalates from coaching to discipline - difficult to execute a consistent coaching/discipline program resulting in lowered employee engagement due to perceptions of unfairness and favoritism. - going to make terminations even more drawn out because of new DOL rules. - incredibly hard for HR leaders to formulate a strategy to increase their crews’ performance. Just some thoughts as we’re working on a new discipline feature for Harvust.

🔥 🌘 What role should a farm's safety program play when a hazard is best prevented off the clock? That's the question I've been asking as we prepared this training on working at night, which is becoming increasingly more common (Good Fruit Grower has several articles on this btw). A lot of the tips in this short training are things the farmworker should do before their shift starts. While safety vests, and lighting are important to engineer out the hazard during the shift, working nights is totally different for the employee's physiology. Changing sleep patterns result in fatigue, which can result in errors and accidents in the field. Without a doubt, what an employee does off the clock affects their safety on the job. But should that be the employer's responsibility? Is it even appropriate for an employer to try and change an employee's off the clock behavior? The employer will end up responsible if something does happen either way. So, I do think this training has a lot to offer: common sense advice, interesting facts, and important reminders. 📢 Side note about regulations: In California for night work there is mandatory supervisor-crew safety meetings at the start of each shift, could we see similar rules pop up in Oregon, Washington, or even federal OSHA? We'll have to wait and see...let's hope not!