With the start of the agricultural crop harvest, the risk of fire increases.
The Lepel District Department for Emergency Situations reminds you that observing the simplest fire safety rules will help you protect your equipment and harvest from fires.
To prevent fires, it is necessary to know and observe elementary fire safety rules:
- employees assigned to crop harvesting work must undergo fire safety training with an entry in the fire safety training registration log;
- exhaust pipes of engines of self-propelled chassis, mowers, tractors, vehicles and combines used for grain harvesting and rough fodder preparation must be equipped with serviceable spark arresters. Spark arresters are also mandatory for tractors engaged in plowing if this work is carried out simultaneously with harvesting near areas with unharvested grain or rough fodder;
- the driver of a vehicle with an internal combustion engine must clean the surface of the engine, manifold, exhaust pipe, and spark arrester of dust and carbon deposits at least 2-3 times per shift;
- battery terminals, starter remote electromagnetic starter, and generator of tractors, electric vehicles, and other self-propelled machines must be protected from conductive objects;
- it is necessary to timely clean beaters, straw spreaders, conveyors, pickers, augers, and other rotating parts and assemblies of combines and harvesting machines from entangled straw mass;
- maintenance, repair, and parking of harvesting machines and units are permitted no closer than 30 m from grain fields;
- it is not allowed to sow cereal crops on the alienation strips of railways and roads. Grass mowed on these strips must be removed to a distance of at least 30 m from grain fields;
- temporary field camps must be located no closer than 100 m from grain fields, threshing floors, hay or straw stacks, etc. The sites designated for field camps must be cleared of stubble and dry grass and plowed with a strip at least 4 m wide.