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Ag Safety STAT
September 2019

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
 

THOUGHTS FROM THE EDITOR – National Farm Safety & Health Week

Dee Jepsen – State Agricultural Safety and Health Leader:   National Farm Safety and Health Week is September 15 - 21, 2019.   This year’s theme is “Shift Farm Safety into High Gear.”  Each day of this week special messages will promote a different topic. Be ready to engage with us on social media and share with others in your network.

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Announcements

CHECK OUT AG SAFETY AT THE 2014 FARM SCIENCE REVIEW!  The OSU Agricultural Safety and Health program staff will be available to meet and talk with attendees of Farm Science Review, September 17-19. Look for us at the following locations:

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Using cameras to monitor equipment function

Rachel Jarman – Ohio AgrAbility, Rural Rehabilitation Coordinator: Using cameras to monitor equipment function has grown in popularity as well as affordability in recent years. Have you ever thought about how those cameras can do more than help you place every last kernel of corn in the semi from the grain cart?

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The Ohio AgrAbility Peer-to-Peer Network

Laura Akgerman, Disability Services Coordinator, Ohio AgrAbility: One of Ohio AgrAbility’s great strengths is its farmers and their families, and their combined experience, life stories, resilience and adaptation to farming with a disability. Every summer Ohio AgrAbility holds a meeting for the famers (Peers) and their families. They share information, ideas, struggles and triumphs, and help each other solve problems or suggest DIY fixes for equipment and tasks.

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Safe Combine Operation During Harvest

Kent McGuire – OSU CFAES Safety and Health Coordinator: As we head into fall and look forward to harvest season, consider safety as part of your harvest planning process. It takes multiple pieces of equipment working simultaneously to have an efficient harvest season and no piece of equipment is more important than the combine.  It is important to keep safety in the forefront when operating or working around the combine and combine safety starts with the operator.

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“Shift Farm Safety Into High Gear.”

Lisa Pfeifer – OSU Ag Safety and Health Education Coordinator: National Farm Safety and Health Week is September 15-21, 2019. Farm safety is a necessary every day practice, but this week allows advocates and safety professionals across the country to turn the spotlight on safe worker practices on the farm by highlighting a topic each day and providing an information push of resources as we all work to “Shift Farm Safety Into High Gear.”

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