Keep a fire extinguisher nearby. Avoid fuel spills. Don’t overfill the tank, especially on hot days. In order to protect your equipment, you should also make sure that everyone is aware of the different types of fuel you use for each piece of equipment.
Don’t overfill the tank, especially on hot days. In order to protect your equipment, you should also make sure that everyone is aware of the different types of fuel you use for each piece of equipment.
Refuelling equipment may also pose several safety hazards so make sure you and your employees follow these safety tips: 1 Never refuel a hot motor 2 Don’t refuel near open flames 3 Keep a fire extinguisher nearby 4 Avoid fuel spills 5 Don’t overfill the tank, especially on hot days
It’s important to note that OSHA approval is not the same as EPA approval or AQMD approval. When selecting a safety can, you need to make sure that it is OSHA approved, none of these other approval marks ensures OSHA approval. Those cheap plastic gas cans may meet EPA guidelines, yet not meet OSHA guidelines.
Since nutrients are not found in adequate supply in the soil, most turfgrasses require regular fertilization. Improper fertilization practices can pose a risk to surface or groundwater quality. You must have a working knowledge of how the plant uses nutrients and the fate of nutrients in the soil.
The grasses found on golf courses clean the environment by absorbing gaseous pollutants and intercepting pesticides, fertilizers, dust, and soil. In addition, grasses release oxygen and reduce glare, noise, and summer temperatures. Irrigation water applied to golf courses remains on site to recharge water supplies.
Sediment destroys fish spawning beds, reduces useful storage volumes in reservoirs, and results in increased filtration costs for municipal water supplies . Pesticides and nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, can be moved in water containing sediment.
Plan construction activities to minimize the duration of exposed soil. Limit the area of soil disturbance at any one time. Construct sediment traps and basins before other land-disturbing activities take place. Establish soil stabilization with plant materials as soon as possible after soil disturbance.
This will also reduce the possibility of nutrient and pesticide movement into those areas. Stabilize and maintain stream banks and ditches to limit erosion. Limit the application of fertilizers and pesticides to turf near the wetlands boundary areas.
Turfgrass selection can have a major impact on water quality. Using weed-free planting material can minimize future weed problems and the need for herbicides . Adapted, improved grasses often require less fertilizer, pesticides, and water. Healthy plants are better able to ward off pests and recover from pest injury or environmental stress.
Excess nitrogen may cause restricted root systems, an overaccumulation of thatch, an increase in the occurrence of disease, a decrease in the tolerance to environmental stress, reduced wear tolerance, and a diminished ability to recover from environmental stress or pest attacks.
You know how baseball players used to apply Vaseline or some kind of petroleum jelly to a baseball to alter the pitch and make it more difficult to hit? Well, golfers used similar tactics to manipulate ball flight.
As McCord tells it, there was a certain golf club company that had a big wooden door — McCord compared it to a “medieval castle” door — in its facility. There was a special knock required to get through, and inside the door was “The Groove Guy.”
Before lie angle and loft machines were readily available, golfers went for the less-refined approach of hitting their irons against concrete to change the lie angles. It wasn’t a perfect system, but it worked.
Yet on the PGA Tour, professional golfers walk the entire course with their caddy lugging the clubs without so much as a hand cart.
Ryan Watson is a freelance sportswriter and history professor. He has been an avid fan of golf since his father signed him up for golf camp as a young child. Ryan enjoys following the professional game and learning about new equipment and gadgets.
Martin’s career was on the up, and by 2000 Martin had earned a spot on the PGA Tour. However, Martin suffers from Klippel–Trénaunay syndrome, a circulatory disease that causes difficulty walking long distances.
It all started with a professional golfer named Casey Martin. Martin’s career was on the up, and by 2000 Martin had earned a spot on the PGA Tour.