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Ten Keys to Tractor Safety
This article presents a checklist of ten common-sense guidelines for conducting a tractor-safety inspection.
Low and Slow
Safety considerations when transporting large hay bales.
Listen Up: Hearing protection
Farming is loud, but it doesn’t have to be. Find out how what you’re hearing now could keep you from hearing later, and take some simple steps to protect yourself.
Farm/Ranch Safety Inventory Tool
This inventory was developed by Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health program to serve as a simple, self-guided tool for conducting a whole-farm or ranch assessment in order to identify potential workplace hazards and unsafe work practices. It is based on past agricultural-related fatality and injury data and addresses those hazards that have the highest … Read More
Driveline Safety
This video, produced by the Agricultural Driveline Manufacturers Association in 2004, informs about how to safely operate and work around an agricultural equipment power driveline, also known as the PTO (Power Take Off). This video is for adults.
Sawdust
A classic video for children, produced by Farm Bureau Insurance in cooperation with the Indiana State Police, the Indiana State Department of Health, and the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department at Purdue University.
Driveline Safety Coloring Book
This publication from the Walterscheid corporation contains many pictures of safe practices around drivelines (also known as power-take-off or PTO shafts) on large equipment such as tractors.
Safety on the Farm
Follow the entertaining farmer character through many misadventures during his work, illustrating what can happen if safety is not practiced. Includes Summaries of tractor accidents, forage harvester dangers, and other common dangers. The material used in the creation of this delightful activity book was originally produced by the Farm Safety Association of Ontario, Canada.
Weeds in Our Garden
The Weeds in Our Garden activity book was prepared especially with the Amish community in mind. The publication addresses child safety in a Biblical context for use in Amish or Old Order communities.