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Add Safety To Your Winter Meetings and Workers’ Compensation Programs
industries in the U.S. affecting a wide range of audiences. The diversity of the workers is reflective in the ... Pfeifer at pfeifer.6@osu.edu Aging Productively on the Farm or in the Garden AgrAbility & Universal ... meetings or Workers Compensation group-rating programs. Our staff will work with you to design a program ...
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THOUGHTS FROM THE EDITOR – National Farm Safety & Health Week
is September 15- 21, 2019. This year’s theme is “Shift Farm Safety into High Gear.” Each day of ... and share with others in your network. Our Facebook page is OSU Ag Safety & Health, our Twitter ... handle is OSUAgSafety. Be sure to check us out for regular safety related messages and events. Daily ...
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Using Heat Lamps: Proceed with Caution!
for ways to keep their livestock warm. Often livestock owners are in a hurry and think hanging a heat ... Sabrina Schirtzinger, ANR Educator Knox County As temperatures get cold livestock owners search ... lamp will be temporary. In a hurry they quickly hang the heat lamp up in the corner of a stall using ...
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Do You Get the Winter Blues?
Bridget Britton, Behavioral Health Field Specialist ANR Those that work in the agriculture ... industry know that it doesn’t matter the time of year, it is always busy. The Winter season is no different ... it just has its own unique demands. However, there may be other things going on in our bodies right ...
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Tractor Accident Can Happen to Anyone
https://agsafety.osu.edu/resources/free-video
2005, 29 tractor-related fatalities were identified in West Virginia. The mean age at death was 58 with ... developed by the West Virginia University Center for Rural Emergency Medicine and the Injury Control ... Research Center (CREM/ICRC) in collaboration with the West Virginia Farm Bureau to gather information about ...
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Grain C.A.R.T. (Comprehensive Agricultural Rescue Trailer)
https://agsafety.osu.edu/grain-cart
presentations at OSU Extension field day events, and Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Safety Congress. The ... such as county fairs, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation regional training events, and regional continuing ... education events for first responders. Program Need: Every 10 years, 235 farmers lose their life in an ...
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Pharmaceutical Waste, National Drug Take Back Campaign
leftover pharmaceuticals from the home, the best option is to take them to a collection event or permanent ... in their medicine cabinets and don’t know what to do with them. Unused drugs can create a risk of ... unintentional overdose or illegal abuse if not properly disposed of. However, flushing medication in the toilet ...
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Putting Farm Safety into Practice
with the first observation being in 1944 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in office. Ohio will ... Labor calculates the death rate for agricultural workers to be higher than other workforces. Knowing ... important for workers to practice safety. When safety is a part of our lifestyle and our workplace routine, ...
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Stay Safe Watching Aerial Applications Over Farm Fields
in agriculture production to plant seeds for agronomic crops, cover crops and also to apply ... fertilizers and pesticides. Aerial applications, also known as crop dusting, is common in Ohio. It is ... a specialty service for fields that are in their advanced growing stages- where equipment can no longer pass ...
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Vomitoxin in Corn Grain Bins
the worker from breathing in dusty, moldy and toxic substances. This type of personal protection ... producers may experience vomitoxin in their bins when unloading and cleaning out this past harvest’s corn ... ethanol plants, feed mills, and grain elevators test for vomitoxin levels in parts per million. Depending ...