Ag Safety STAT: April 2018

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Ag Safety S.T.A.T. – Safe Tactics for Ag Today is an electronic newsletter prepared by team members from the OSU Extension Agricultural Safety & Health Office. The goal is to provide seasonal safety news and activities that may be re-published in your own newsletters or programs. If you have safety-related questions or program ideas that you would like to share, please contact Dee Jepsen at jepsen.4@osu.edu
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Announcements

  1. Follow OSU Ag Safety and Health on Social Media

    You can now follow OSU Ag Safety and Health on Facebook or Twitter. These social media pages are updated on a regular basis providing useful information on agricultural safety and safety in the workplace. 

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  2. Safe Digging for the Home, Yard and Farm

    Spring and summer seasons seem to spark additional excavation projects for home and landowners. The entire month of April is designated as National Safe Digging Month. The goal of this awareness campaign is to remind project designers and landowners to use the 811 hotline number to determine any

  3. National Occupational Therapy Month

    April is occupational therapy (OT) month. OT practitioners focus on helping clients perform everyday activities to their highest potential. When injury strikes or long term wear of joints and muscles require rehabilitation, an occupational therapist provides the necessary care to improve our

  4. Updated Safe Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia Fact Sheet

    OSU Ag Safety and Health has revised and updated the “Safe Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia” fact sheet just in time for the 2018 planting season.  The fact sheet can be found on Ohioline at:   https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/aex-594

Safety Resource Spotlight

  1. OSU Extension: Ohioline

    Ohioline is an information resource produced by Ohio State University Extension. Through Ohioline, agricultural safety fact sheets can be accessed, as well as hundreds of OSU Extension fact sheets covering a wide array of subjects such as agriculture and natural resources, family and consumer

Ohio AgrAbility

  1. Ohio AgrAbility in Action: Lift Creepers

    Laura Akgerman – Disability Services Coordinator for Ohio AgrAbility:

    If you have ever had to spend hours sitting on the floor of your workshop working on equipment, you know it can be hard to move across the workshop floor, or to stand, sit, kneel, and

Injury Prevention

  1. Hitching / Unhitching Safety with Equipment

    Kent McGuire – OSU Ag Safety and Health Coordinator:

    One of the most common tasks on the farm is hitching or unhitching equipment. The two most common tractor-hitching methods use the drawbar or the 3-point hitch assembly. In either case, there can be multiple elements

Emergency Management

  1. How Prepared Are You for a Potential Grain Engulfment?

    Lisa Pfeifer – OSU Ag Safety and Health Education Coordinator:

    Preparedness is a concept with which we are all familiar. We learn where and how to exit a building in the event of a fire in grade school and that learning continues to build from there. You may note an exit