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NYCAMH promotes safe and healthy farming by providing farm safety educational services. These programs include preventive teaching, demonstrations and/or hands-on activities based on farm death/injury and illness research findings.
Topics
- safe tractor and equipment operation
- farm repair shop safety
- organizing and managing a safety program on the farm
- chainsaw and woods safety
- disability awareness
- fatality and injury investigations
- occupational hearing loss
- skin cancer
- breathing hazards
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use for hearing, breathing, vision and skin protection
- appropriate use of slow moving
vehicle (SMV) marking and lighting use and transportation
- developmentally appropriate farm chores for kids
- farm stress management
- other farm safety issues that may be of particular concern to your farm commodity
Target Audience
- farm organizations
- individual farmers and their
families
- agribusiness
- agricultural college students
- high school agricultural classes
- vocational agricultural teachers
- firefighter/EMS personnel
- health professionals
- engineers and safety specialists
- members of the media
- policy makers
The NYCAMH staff is available to provide farm safety educational services in your community for a minimum enrollment of 25 farmers/participants. Please
contact Sharon Scofield, Outreach/ Education Supervisor, at 800.343.7527
ext. 236 for more information.
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