Don’t just be ‘lucky’ when it comes to rollover tractor accidents
There is a national project offering financial rebates to help incentivize farmers to install rollover protection (ROP) on their equipment.
There is a national project offering financial rebates to help incentivize farmers to install rollover protection (ROP) on their equipment.
The more time that passes after an accident and once other people become involved, the more complicated it gets. You need to make sure you have done everything possible to protect yourself and your farm.
Nothing can prevent every incident, but training and educating workers how to ride an ATV safely can make a life-ending crash less likely to happen.
It’s crucial to approach equipment extraction cautiously. Here are tips to help protect yourself and your crew when extracting stuck farm machinery.
Young farm workers are more susceptible to harm, says Roger Tormoehlen, a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue University. Completely accessible online and free to download, the comprehensive safety and health training program targets young and beginning ag workers ages 12-20.
Bypassing safety features and precautions during farm machinery repairs can quickly end in tragedy, and three sad incidents explain why farm safety is key.
As farmers face many circumstances out of their control, it’s important to take additional safety measures amid drought conditions during harvest.
When people think about the pillars of farm safety and hazard awareness on agricultural operations, here are the major things that they focus on.
National Farm Safety and Health Week, which began in 1944, is set to run from Sept. 18 to 22 this year under the theme Protecting Agriculture’s Future.
With the kinds of collisions being seen on many rural roads between tractor and combine drivers and other motorists, many wonder how this could happen.