Living and working in rural America poses unique health and safety concerns. "Harvesting Health", a series of one-page handouts, offers practical prevention information on 11 health and safety topics, including eye protection, hearing conservation, silo gas and children and dairy chemicals.
Operation Hat Check was an initiative designed by the National Farm Medicine Center to promote farmers' use of sunsafe hats. The objective of Operation Hat Check was to encourage farmers to trade in their baseball caps, which offer minimal protection from the sun, for a free wide-brimmed hat. Click for a complete report.
The Ergonomics of Back Pain in Farmers manual was designed to facilitate change in the clinician and farm workers' practices with respect to levels of back-to-work performance. The manual and "quick reference" sheet lists tasks associated with small-to-medium size Midwest dairy operations. The tasks are described in detail to provide the "non-farmer" with enough information to help in determining back-to-work recommendations.