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View Resource Agricultural Labor Management: Farm Safety

The website provides links to regional and national agricultural health and safety information.

http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7safety.htm
View Resource Anhydrous Ammonia: Managing The Risks

More anhydrous ammonia is used as fertilizer in North Dakota than any other nitrogen fertilizer source. Anhydrous ammonia is classified as a hazardous substance. Most accidents with anhydrous ammonia...

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/safety/ae1149-1.htm
View Resource Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion. The nature of the transmissible...

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/bse/
View Resource Caught in the Grain!

People can become caught or trapped in grain in three different ways: the collapse of bridged grain, the collapse of a vertical wall of grain, and entrapment in flowing grain. Moving or flowing grain...

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/safety/ae1102w.htm
View Resource Chain Saw Safety: No Tricks

A safe way to prepare yourself for operating a chain saw is to read the operator's manual and obtain training from someone who is experienced with chain saws. It is very important to become familiar...

http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/ageng/safety/ae1025w.htm
View Resource Child Safety

Many fact sheets and videos on specific topics regarding the safety of children and teens on the farm.

http://www.nasdonline.org/browse/189/child-safety.html
View Resource Farming With Disabilities

Long series of videos and documents on farming by people with any type of disabilities.

http://www.nasdonline.org/browse/194/farming-with-disabiliti...
View Resource Grain Handling/Harvesting/Storage

Fact sheets and videos on topics relating to grain handling and storage safety.

http://www.nasdonline.org/browse/200/grain-handling-harvesti...
View Resource Haz-Map Job Information: Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers & Applicators, Vegetation

Lists high risk job tasks associated with Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers and Applicators for vegetation.

http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/hazmap_link?tbl=TblJobs&id...
View Resource Healthy Animals Newsletter

Healthy Animals is an online compilation of animal health-related research news put out each quarter by the Information Staff of the Agricultural Research Service. ARS is the chief scientific agency...

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/index.html
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