Cultivate Safety

08/05/2024

Justin Norr is a friend and colleague in Utah who reached out to share a story with us and all of you with the moral of the story being to always be prepared for the unexpected!

I had a crazy experience out at my dry farm in Promontory, Utah last month. Being 45 minutes from fire and EMS response, I was grateful that I had planned and prepared for any emergencies. After 10 days of hard work swathing and baling fall forage with my daughter's help, a bearing on the swather auger went bad, causing a small fire. Without a fire extinguisher, I had to think fast and act quickly to put it out. Always be prepared for the unexpected!

08/02/2024

🌟 Join us for a special webinar on Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Children! 🌾👧🏽👦🏼

Whether you speak English or Spanish, this webinar will provide valuable insights. Mark your calendar for August 6th at 12pm CT and grab the Zoom link from the flyer. Let's learn and grow together! 🌟

08/01/2024

New study sheds light on the mental health struggles of our hardworking farmers. Chronic fatigue acts as a mediator between loneliness at work, autonomy, workload, government policies and regulations and life satisfaction. Let's support our agricultural workers and address their psychological burden." https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1059924X.2023.2289967

08/01/2024

🌟 Join us on August 6th at 12pm CT for a special webinar on Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Children! This informative session will be available in both English and Spanish, so everyone can join in. Click the link in the flyer to secure your spot on Zoom. Don't miss out! 🌟

07/31/2024

WE ENVISION A WORLD IN WHICH EVERY CHILD IS PROTECTED FROM UNINTENTIONAL INJURIES.

Safe Kids Worldwide is a nonprofit organization working to reduce unintentional injuries to children ages 0-14 and build equitable and sustainable systems that support injury prevention. Most people are surprised to learn preventable injuries are the number one cause of death to children in the United States. https://www.safekids.org/

07/30/2024

Long-time researcher challenges traditional notions of incident reporting

“Using ‘accident’ avoids a serious investigation of the event, and it hampers efforts to alter unsafe environments or conditions in which children are present,” wrote Lee in an open-access commentary recently published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Agromedicine. “Child Farm Injuries are Never ‘Accidents,’” a commentary by Barbara Lee, is available at

Published in Journal of Agromedicine (Vol. 29, No. 2, 2024)

07/29/2024

🌟 Attention all advocates for migrant and seasonal farmworker children! 🌟 Join us on August 6th at 12pm CT for a FREE webinar available in English and Spanish. Learn about the unique challenges these kids face and how we can support their education. Zoom link in the flyer! Don't miss out! 🚜📚👧🏽👦🏻

07/26/2024

Congratulations to Barbara Lee, Ph.D., and Matthew Keifer, M.D., M.P.H., who contributed a chapter titled “Rural and Agricultural Environments” to the recently published second edition of the Textbook of Children's Environmental Health (Oxford University Press). The book has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the tremendous changes that have occurred in the field during the 10 years since the previous edition. Lee and Keifer’s 16-page Chapter 21 addresses topics such as:

- Contrasts between rural and urban environmental facts, including access to health and dental care, increase response time to injury events, and diversity of populations at risk.
- Fatal and nonfatal injuries and major safety strategies.
- Weather and climate hazards.
- Zoonoses and infectious disease (with a comprehensive table listing out disease agents, characteristics, and symptoms).
- Approaches to community-level safety, health and well-being.

Other chapters address pertinent topics such as exposures to volatile organic chemicals, pesticides, lead, noise and ionizing radiation.

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07/25/2024

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported Feb. 22, 2023, “Globally, at least 170,000 agriculture workers are fatally injured every year. Nationally 60 to 70 per 100,000 farmers are killed annually.” Prevent these incidents with resources from https://cultivatesafety.org/

07/24/2024

As the summer fair season approaches, will you be lending a hand at a 4-H food stand or county fair? It's essential to prioritize food safety to keep the public safe from illness. Check out this video for key tips on how to properly handle and serve food. Remember - clean clothes, no working when ill, and avoid cross-contamination! Let's work together to ensure everyone has a safe and enjoyable experience at the fair.

Keeping the public safe from foodborne illness is important when working at a 4-H food stand, county fair or other similar venue. This video covers the basic...