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Vol. 10, No. 8, September 2009
Contents
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THOUGHTS & QUOTES
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Sharing the
Road with Farm Equipment on-line Training
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We are excited to have completed
the newest NASD training unit about the interaction of motorists
and farm machinery on public roads.
The unit was developed to help
motorists understand what to do and what not to do. “Sharing
the Road With Agricultural Equipment,” a 25-minute multimedia
training program, is available at the National Ag Safety Database
Web site, http://www.nasdonline.org.
Major topics in the program
include:
- characteristics of agricultural
equipment that can create hazards for motorists
- factors that affect motor
vehicle stopping distance
- slow-moving vehicle emblems
and warning lights on agricultural equipment
- the three most common collision
scenarios
- descriptions of actual collisions
- the importance of motorist
attitude
Without the willingness to
slow down, observe, and determine how to proceed safely, any
motorist is at risk. Part of that attitude is realizing farmers
have the right to move their equipment on public roads, and they
only do so because they’re hard at work. The public should
view the farmer as someone who has to take his factory to the
field and be more patient.
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Working With
Disabilities
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This article in Growing
magazine features tips about preventing further injuries and
continuing to work with a disability. There is a growing number
of fruit and vegetable growers with disabilities who continue
to farm. In some cases, disabilities ranging from the loss of
fingers or a hand to a spinal cord injury resulted from a traumatic
injury on the farm. In other cases, becoming older can result
in arthritis, reduced vision, hearing loss or other disabling
conditions that may affect farm work.
The complete article is at:
http://www.growingmagazine.com/article.php?id=3821
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New CDC Rabies
Web site for Kids
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"Rabies is a disease that
affects the brain. It´s usually passed from animal to animal,
but it can be passed from animals to people. It´s caused
by a virus. A virus is a very tiny germ, and you can only see
that germ if you have a special microscope."
Thus begins the answer to the
question "What is rabies?" at a new CDC Web site that
teaches kids the facts about rabies. The site answers other questions,
too, in sections named:
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First Person
Stories on on-line Video
The
Canadian Agricultural Safety Association has several videos posted
on-line. Included are people telling first-person stories of
what happened to them in order to pass along the safety message
to others. Their message is that “Farm Safety is Farming
Safely.”
Video clips that can be viewed at http://www.casa-acsa.ca/english/res_video.html
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Tractors
and Woods
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farm tractors are not equipped for use in woodlots. "Farm
Tractors and Woods," an article in the September/October
2009 issue of Pennsylvania State University Extension’s
Agricultural
Safety and Health News, offers safety guidelines when
using tractors to clear land and transport wood products on the
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SAFETY
NEWS & NOTES
is an e-mail newsletter prepared by Carol J. Lehtola, Extension
Agricultural Safety Specialist and team leader for the Prevention
and Preparedness: Agricultural Safety & Disaster Management
program. Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering,
UF/IFAS. If you have safety- or disaster-related questions or
ideas that you would like to share with other agents, please
contact Dr. Lehtola. If you know someone interested in receiving
this newsletter, we will gladly add them to the e-mail list.
Past issues of Safety News & Notes are archived on the Florida AgSafe Web site.
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