Agricultural Safety Resource Links
NIOSH Agricultural Centers
Click here to view the NIOSH Ag Center fact sheet
- Pacific Northwest Agricultural Safety & Health Center
Washington - Western Center for Agricultural Health & Safety
California - High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health & Safety
Colorado - Southwest Center for Agricultural Health, Injury Prevention & Education
Texas - Great Plains Center for Agricultural Health
Iowa - Southeast Center for Agricultural Health &Injury Prevention
Kentucky - Northeast Center for Agricultural Safety & Health
New York - Great Lakes Center for Agricultural Safety and Health
Ohio - Southern Coastal Agromedicine Center
North Carolina - National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Wisconsin
Other Agricultural Safety Resource Links
- AgSafe
- The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) provides trade association services for companies that manufacture equipment worldwide in Agriculture, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Utility. AEM’s safety mission is to provide and enhance safe equipment operation guidance. Visit AEM’s safety material website.
- Hearing Safety Brochures: Can You Hear Me? ; Have You Heard?
- Farm Safety 4 Just Kids
- Food Safety Information Center
- Migrant Clinicians Network
- The Missouri Arthritis Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (MARRTC) and the Missouri AgrAbility Project (MAP)
- National Agricultural Library
- NASD: National Ag Safety Database
- National Center for Farmworker Health
- National Safety Council- Agricultural Safety
- NIOSH
- NIOSH Ag Center Fact Sheet
- SW Ag Center Fact Sheet
- Youth at Work: Talking Safety is a curriculum dedicated to reducing occupational injuries and illnesses among working youth.
News You Can Use:
Agricultural Bioaerosols – IRSST technical data sheet
Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Institute (IRSST) has just published a technical data sheet informing on respiratory protection against agricultural bioaerosols.
Conceived to help the prevention activities, this technical data sheet, named Agricultural Bioaerosols offers general and practical information on respiratory protective equipment. The micro-organisms generated by animals and the decomposition of organic matter may cause respiratory problems. The authors propose different types of respiratory protection devices and some instructions for use.
To download the technical data sheet, please visit: http://www.irsst.qc.ca/fr/_publicationirsst_100402.html " rel="external"
The Journal of Agromedicine is issuing a special edition devoted to Pesticides in August 2007! Check out the flyer for more information. Special Issue Flyer
MARRTC researchers put together a DVD to help people in the agricultural industry deal with arthritis. The DVD, titled “Farming with Arthritis,” features farmers in real-life scenarios. It is also a useful tool for physicians and other health-care providers in better understanding the challenges specific to farming population.
To watch the DVD online click: "Farming with Arthritis"