6 full lessons
Written in plain language, illustrated, and kept as a reference afterward.
Working skills · the habits that get everybody home
Working Safely Around Water, Food, and Gear
Cold, tides, vessels, lifting, machinery, chemicals, and clean handling, plus the habits and plans that get everybody home at the end of the day.
Six lessons on the hazards this industry actually produces: cold water and the first minutes, tides and soft ground, lines and loads on a working deck, wet weight and machinery, chemicals next to food, and the plan for the day something goes wrong. Written for the person doing the work, and for whoever is responsible for them.
$75 once, or $75 on Driftline. Add $60 and Jules reads and grades one real piece of work, passing at 80 percent. Review is optional. Nothing here is accredited or carries credit.
Take this class
Pay once, and it is yours to come back to. Pick how you want to take it.
On your own
The whole class, the practice work, and the knowledge checks. No pass score, no graded work, no certificate gate.
With Jules reading your work
Everything above, plus one real piece of work, "A safety plan for one real day", that Jules reads and grades against a rubric you can see before you start. You pass at 80 percent, and you can rewrite and send it back as many times as you need. This is optional, and it is not accredited and carries no continuing education credit.
Already taking this class? You can add review later and pay only the $60 difference.
9 contact hours
Measured per lesson, with written outcomes, so your time is recorded honestly.
No-pressure checks
Clear answers and explanations, unlimited tries, and nothing sent to a gradebook.
Region aware
Rules are shown by state with the source and the date we checked it.
The complete course
Lesson 1 · 1.5 h
Cold Water and the First Minutes
- · Describe what cold water does to breathing, hands, and judgment
- · Explain why a flotation layer you actually wear beats one stored in a locker
- · Write a simple plan for a fall into the water at your own site
Lesson 2 · 1.5 h
Tides, Mud, and Getting Off the Flat
- · Read a published tide prediction and turn it into a turnaround time
- · Name the hazards specific to soft ground, channels, and fog
- · Describe how you would be found if something went wrong out there
Lesson 3 · 2 h
Boats, Docks, and Deck Work
- · Name the common deck injuries and the setup that prevents each
- · Describe a man-overboard response for a small working vessel
- · Explain why drills are practiced rather than read
Lesson 4 · 1.5 h
Lifting, Gear, and Machinery
- · Describe safe lifting and why repetition is its own hazard
- · Identify pinch points and guarded parts on common farm equipment
- · Explain in plain words why a machine is locked out before service
Lesson 5 · 1.5 h
Clean Work, Chemicals, and Food
- · Read a chemical label for dilution, contact time, and protective gear
- · Explain how cleaning chemicals end up in product and how to prevent it
- · Describe the handling habits that keep harvested food safe
Lesson 6 · 1 h
When Something Goes Wrong
- · Describe the first three actions after an injury at a remote worksite
- · Explain what gets reported, to whom, and why
- · Write an incident note that would still make sense a year later
What this course covers where you live
We say plainly how well each part of the country is covered, rather than implying the whole country is written to the same depth.
- West Coast: sourced and ready
- Alaska: partly sourced
- Northeast: partly sourced
- Mid-Atlantic and Southeast: partly sourced
- Gulf: partly sourced
- Great Lakes and inland: partly sourced
- Hawaii and the Pacific islands: partly sourced
Workplace safety rules are federal, and often run by the state
The federal workplace safety agency sets the baseline. Many states run their own approved plan instead, with rules that can be stricter. Find out which one covers your workplace before you rely on anything you read here.
OSHA, state plans · checked 2026-09-19Commercial fishing safety research carries over to farm vessels
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health studies deaths and injuries in commercial fishing, and the findings about falls overboard, deck injuries, and drills apply directly to small working boats on a farm.
NIOSH, commercial fishing safety · checked 2026-09-19Tide predictions come from the national tide service
Published tide predictions for United States stations are free and official. Predictions are not measurements, and wind and weather can push real water levels above or below them.
NOAA Tides and Currents · checked 2026-09-19Vessel equipment requirements come from the Coast Guard
Required safety equipment depends on the vessel, its length, and how it is used. The Coast Guard boating safety program publishes the requirements and offers free vessel safety checks in many places.
U.S. Coast Guard boating safety · checked 2026-09-19
If you want Jules to read your work
Everyone gets the same lessons, practice work, and knowledge checks. For $60 more you also get one real assignment that Jules reads and grades. You can see exactly how it is judged before you start, you pass at 80 percent, and you can rewrite and send it back as many times as you need. This is optional, and it is still not accredited and carries no continuing education credit.
The assignment
A safety plan for one real day
Write the plan for a working day on the water, from the truck to the dock.
Describe one working day at a site you know or have studied: what gets done, with what gear, by how many people. Then write the safety plan for that day. Cover cold water, tides, lifting, machinery, and the drive. For each hazard say what would actually go wrong, what you do to stop it, and what happens if it goes wrong anyway, including who you call and how long help takes. Name any required training or equipment and cite the rule that requires it.
How it is graded
Hazards drawn from the real day · 25 points
Every hazard you list belongs to the work you described, and you have not padded the list with generic ones.
Controls that people would actually use · 25 points
Your controls fit the crew and the gear, not an ideal site with unlimited budget.
Emergency response with real times · 25 points
Your response names who is called, from where, and how long the wait honestly is.
Requirements cited, not assumed · 25 points
Training and equipment requirements point to the rule or standard that sets them.
100 points in total. You pass at 80. Jules grades what you worked out, not your formatting or your word count.
Where it can take you
The last lesson sends you to real hands-on first aid and CPR training, a free vessel safety check, your state's workplace safety plan, and a food handler card where your work requires one. This course points at those. It does not replace any of them.
This course does not carry accreditation, credit, or continuing education units, and completing it does not count toward any outside credential. It is written to the structure a continuing education standard expects, with measured hours, written outcomes, and a completion record you can keep.