Agriculture - Valparaiso

The Agricultural Safety and Health Council of America™ is a not-for-profit organization established to pursue national strategies to create a less-hazardous work environment for American agriculture.

CDC link with information on agricultural safety.

USDA's link that takes you to information on Agricultural safety.

The Agricultural Safety and Health eXtension Community of Practice (CoP) is a collaborative effort between universities, industry, and government to provide user-friendly information for the general rural population, agricultural producers, and agricultural safety and health professionals.

The National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS) is dedicated to preventing illnesses, injuries and deaths among farmers and ranchers, agricultural and horticultural workers, their families and their employees.

The National Safety Council (NSC) helped raise awareness of safety issues in rural communities.

Suffocation can occur when a worker enters a bin and is engulfed by grain or when bins develop hazardous atmospheres or do not have enough oxygen.

With the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to ensure safe and healthful working conditions for working men and women by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education and assistance.
OSHA is part of the United States Department of Labor.

This website is the product of a Susan Harwood Training Grant from the U.S. Department of Labor developed by Purdue University’s Agricultural Safety and Health Program. It is intended to be a resource for those conducting safety and health training in the area of agricultural confined spaces with a special focus on grain storage, handling and processing. Training resources are included that are relevant to farm operators, youth and beginning workers in the grain industry, workers in the commercial grain industry and emergency first responders.

The Upper Midwest Agricultural Safety and Health Center (UMASH) is a multidisciplinary collaboration of five leading research and health care institutions. This collaboration brings together unique and complimentary expertise to address existing and emerging occupational health and safety issues in agriculture.