Being clean is the minimum. Safety in the farm, or for that matter, many other industries, require more than just cleanliness but most importantly, safety culture change.

Farm work has a mortality rate of about 25/100,000 workers, one of the highest of any industry. It is higher than even construction. Chemical exposure is a very small percentage of the mortality rate. Besides mechanical injuries, confined space deaths occur frequently, at much higher rate than chemical exposure.

One of my wife's morbid work is to investigate these deaths and teach safety procedures. Besides clinical practice, I myself am involved with surgical room safety. To promote "heath" of certain practices when there is no scientific evidence only increases our overall health care cost when people become ill.

A lot of these information can be found on the Department of Labor, OSHA, and CDC web sites, not to mention a myriad of other foreign health care sites.

Per the site's Guidelines for productive online discussion, specifically Stay on topic. Many other avenues exist for non-coffee discussions, I believe it's time to move on. Thanks.