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Farm Emergency Training

Access education resources on farm safety and disaster preparedness, including fire safety, biosecurity best practices, and pesticide safety. Get tips on emergency response training and a workbook on dealing with farm disasters and catastrophic events.
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  1. 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
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    2020 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
    By Judd Michael, Kelly Chege
    Penn State's Extension Ag Safety & Health program produces annual summaries of Pennsylvania's farm fatalities. These summaries can help identify hazards and risks associated with production agriculture with a goal of mitigating those sources.
  2. Photo credit: Michael Houtz
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    2023 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
    By Judd Michael, Florence Becot, Ph.D., Linda M Fetzer
    Penn State's Extension Ag Safety & Health program produces annual summaries of Pennsylvania's farm fatalities. These summaries can help identify hazards and risks associated with production.
  3. Photo credit: Michael Houtz
    Articles
    2022 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
    By Judd Michael, Linda M Fetzer
    Penn State's Extension Ag Safety and Health program produces annual summaries of Pennsylvania's farm fatalities. These summaries can help identify hazards and risks associated with production agriculture with a goal of mitigating those sources.
  4. Grain Bin Safety Rescue
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    Grain Bin Safety Rescue
    By Stephen Brown
    Length 14:36
    This video highlights the top hazards that can be found while working around grain and discusses best practices for promoting safety.
  5. 2017 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
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    2017 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
    By Douglas Schaufler, Ph.D., P.E., Serap Gorucu, Ph.D
    Annual summaries of farm fatalities help identify hazards and risks associated with production agriculture.
  6. First Aid for Pesticide Poisoning
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    First Aid for Pesticide Poisoning
    By Linda M Fetzer
    Immediate and appropriate action, such as providing first aid, may be necessary to prevent serious injury to a victim of pesticide poisoning. The situation can be a life-or-death matter.
  7. Photo credit: Kasey Snell
    Articles
    2021 Pennsylvania Farm Fatal Injury Summary
    By Judd Michael, Kasey Snell, Linda M Fetzer
    Penn State's Extension Ag Safety & Health program produces annual summaries of Pennsylvania's farm fatalities. These summaries can help identify hazards and risks associated with production agriculture with a goal of mitigating those sources.
  8. Silo Fires
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    Silo Fires
    By Davis E. Hill
    Protect your investment. The investment you make in putting the crop in the silo is less than what you would spend if purchasing the crop from someone else.
  9. Farm Family Emergency Response Training
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    Farm Family Emergency Response Training
    By Stephen Brown, Linda M Fetzer, Dave Hill
    This program will lead participants through various scenarios that will force them to think about typical injury incidents and make proper decisions.
  10. Confined Space Manure Storage Emergencies
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    Confined Space Manure Storage Emergencies
    By Dennis Murphy, Ph.D., Davis E. Hill
    Learn about when a person is discovered unresponsive in a manure storage pit and the best management practices farmers can take to avoid an emergency on their farm.
  11. Parts of the PTO Demonstration
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    PTO Hazards Simulator
    Intended for adult workers this table top demo is designed to provide a hands‐on, life‐like PTO entanglement scenario. Reaction time is measured in relationship to the speed of a turning PTO shaft.
  12. Farm Hazard Hunt Display
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    Farm Hazard Hunt Display
    This Demo will show many sources of farm hazards. Discussion of hazard prevention, developing a strategy to deal with potential hazards, and responding to injuries or fatalities from farm hazards.
  13. Hazards of Flowing Grain Demonstrations
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    Hazards of Flowing Grain Demonstrations
    The objective of the demonstration is to illustrate how grain flows in storage structures and transport vehicles, the hazards of flowing grain, and rescue procedures for freeing an entrapped victim.
  14. Collection of various protective gear
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    Head, Eye, and Foot Protection Demonstration
    This demonstration is for adult workers. Using the Head, Eye, and Foot Protection Demonstration helps illustrate the value of choosing the proper personal protective equipment.
  15. Corn Harvest Hazard Simulator Demo
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    Corn Harvest Hazard Simulator
    This demonstration is aimed at adult workers. The Corn Picker Hazard Simulator presents a simulation of a clogged corn picker or forage harvester in operation.
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