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Don’t Learn Safety by Accident
https://agsafety.osu.edu/don%E2%80%99t-learn-safety-accident
National Farm Safety and Health Week is September 15 – 21, 2024. This annual event was put in place by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. For the past 80 years, the nation continues to commemorate safety education for farm workers and farm fami ...
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Farm Safety and Health Week is very real for Ohio farmers in 2024!
https://agsafety.osu.edu/farm-safety-and-health-week-very-real-ohio-farmers-2024
Each year a national campaign highlights efforts farmers and rural communities can take to be aware of the many hazards working in agriculture. Since 1944, the third week of September is dedicated to National Farm Safety and Health Week. Beyond the hazard ...
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Severe Weather on the Farm
https://agsafety.osu.edu/safety-thru%C2%A0-seasons-2024/severe-weather-farm
By Wayne Dellinger, OSUE ANR Educator, Union County Being aware of weather conditions is nothing new to farmers. Weather is what dictates everything from when fieldwork can be done to how well crops yield. Severe weather awareness is an old topic that s ...
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Safety Thru the Seasons 2024
https://agsafety.osu.edu/safety-thru%C2%A0-seasons-2024
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Towed Implement Lighting and Marking Recommendations
https://agsafety.osu.edu/towed-implement-lighting-marking
Towed Implement Lighting and Marking Recommendations If wagons or towed implements obscure the SMV emblem on the tractor, the rearmost wagon or implement needs to have an SMV emblem in place. The Ohio Revised Code requires towed equipment to display the f ...
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SMV emblem
https://agsafety.osu.edu/smv-emblem
Identification of Slow Moving Vehicles It sounds like a word problem straight out of a math textbook: If a car is traveling 60 mph and approaching a tractor traveling 20 mph, how long does it take for the car to travel 400-foot and reach the tractor? The ...
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Ohio's Farm Fatality Statistics
https://agsafety.osu.edu/statistics
The Farm Fatality and Injury Database of Ohio (FFIDO): Dr. Dee Jepsen The FFIDO Program involves surveillance of agricultural fatalities and injuries in Ohio, interpretation of data, and design of outreach programming. The results of the FFIDO surveillanc ...
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Agricultural Rescue Programming
https://agsafety.osu.edu/programs/agricultural-rescue-programming
Agricultural Rescue Programming focuses on providing awareness to the first responders and fire fighters of agricultural emergencies. As people become more removed for the farm, there is a need to provide background and basic education on agricultural pra ...
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House Bill 484- Multi-wheeled tractor lighting and marking:
https://agsafety.osu.edu/programs/agricultural-equipment/multi-wheeled-tractor-lighting-and-marking
House Bill 484- Multi-wheeled tractor lighting and marking: The Ohio Revised Code requires all agricultural equipment to operate with required lighting from sunset to sunrise or when there is insufficient light to render discernible persons, vehicles, and ...
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Tractor Lighting and Marking Recommendations
https://agsafety.osu.edu/tractor-lighting-marking
Tractor Lighting and Marking Recommendations A Slow Moving Vehicle (SMV) emblem is required at all times. Additionally, the Ohio Revised Code requires tractors (non multi-wheeled) and other self-propelled equipment to display the following lighting sunset ...