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Before summer activities are in full swing, be sure to review safety information. Our resources web page is full of safety and health information for farmers and ag operators. Check out:
Now is also a great time to review the types of ticks that spread dangerous disease, and how to properly remove a tick, all available on our tick resource page.
| | May is also National Beef Month! We have many resources for beef producers and livestock workers, including livestock workers safety information and feedyard worker safety information. The Feedyard 15 is a free safety training curriculum that is available to cattle feedyard operations. The program addresses critical safety issues commonly found in feedyard operations. | | |
Avian Influenza PPE for Dairy Cattle Workers
CS-CASH has PPE and educational information that can be requested by local public health departments who need PPE to distribute, or dairy operations that would like PPE, FREE of charge! Kits include: face shields, nitrile gloves, alcohol wipes, safety glasses, N95 respirators, educational materials in English and Spanish in a woven back pack that workers can label with their name. Contact Ellen Duysen to make a request. A big thanks to those who helped us pack up hundreds of kits for dairy workers!
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Nebraska Tractor & Equipment Safety Training
Annual Tractor & Equipment Safety Trainings are coming up across the state of Nebraska! Certification from this course allows 14- and 15-year-olds to legally drive a tractor and do field work with certain mechanized equipment. Certification is earned by completing a Hands-On Safety Day with written test (Certification Day 1), then completing the Tractor and Equipment Safety Training with driving exam (Certification Day 2). Anyone 14 and older can attend! Youth under 14 can attend Day 1 if accompanied by an adult, at no charge.
Visit go.unmc.edu/tractor-safety-training to learn more, see the full schedule, and register for a training!
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2024 Agricultural Health & Safety Course
The 14th Annual Agricultural Health and Safety CEU Course begins in July. CS-CASH and the UNMC College of Public Health offer this course FREE of charge as a THANK YOU to those working to improve the health and safety of communities across the world!
This course is designed to examine key health and safety issues specific to rural and agricultural workers. Experts will present course material relevant to those working in health care, public health, education, and safety professions.
Sessions A and B will be held live and via Zoom July 9-12 and Session C (recorded sessions) can be accessed July 9.
Visit go.unmc.edu/ag-safety-course to learn more and register!
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Need a presentation or training? Contact us!
We can provide presentations and trainings in our 7-state region, free of charge, on ag health and safety related topics.
Contact Ellen Duysen.
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Congratulations to our newly funded pilot projects!
- Surveillance of Ticks and their Pathogens in Bison Populations | Dr. Shaun Cross and Dr. Mystera Samuelson
- Occupational Health Hazards posed by Airborne Neonicotinoid Dust from Seed Treatments | Darrin Thompson, Matthew Nagorzanski, David Cwiertny
- An assessment of formal and non-formal safety education in secondary and post-secondary agricultural education | Jonathan Ulmer, Jason Ellis
- Creating a generation of agriculture safety and health influencers: Youth peer-to-peer engagement strategies to foster positive change | Jana Davidson, Laura Rice
- Adverse health outcomes from pesticide exposure in the female agriculture workforce | Muhammad Zahid, Jessica Groskopf, Jennifer Weisbrod, Cheryl Beseler
- Cardiovascular Disease Risk (CVD) of Latino migrant farmworkers: A descriptive study | Maria Jose Sanchez, Athena Ramos, Sheri Rowland
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CS-CASH in Action
See what the Center has been up to...
| | CS-CASH contributed bucket hats and weather safety resources to the sun safety presentation at the Progressive Ag Safety Day hosted by North Dakota State University Extension in Ramsey County on April 24. | |  | PhD student Alex Farfalla and Professor Dr. Matt Nonnenmann attended the annual Nebraska Poultry Industries Conference on March 15 and 16, providing safety and health materials for poultry workers. | | | Drs. Aaron Yoder and Athena Ramos presented "Partnering to Promote Safety in the Feedyard and Industry" at the Spring 2024 Academy of Veterinary Consultants meeting on March 29th. Find more information on our feedyard worker safety projects. | | | Graduate students Julia Bai and Sarah Tucker, and Communications Specialist Kelsey Irvine, provided outreach information at the 2024 Nebraska Public Health Conference on March 27th and 28th in Lincoln, NE. Find our health and safety resources here. | | | |
Recent Publications & Media
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Dr. Mystera Samuelson, Dr. Risto Rautiainen, and Ellen Duysen, along with collaborators from the Oglala Lakota Nation and NIOSH, were authors on the NIOSH Science Blog article “Support for Existing Expertise: Community-focused training initiatives to improve the safety and health of Tribal buffalo herd workers”.
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Steps to halt zoonotic disease transmission, by Dr. Aaron Yoder
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Deal with back pain on the farm, by Ellen Duysen
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How technology can save your life on the farm, by Ellen Duysen
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Creating a culture of safety in your feedyard, by Dr. Athena Ramos
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How Ergonomic Technology can Improve Farm Safety, TTFH Podcast featuring Dr. Aaron Yoder
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Schwab, A. D., T. A. Wyatt, A. J. Nelson, A. Gleason, R. Gaurav, D. J. Romberger, and J. A. Poole. Lung-delivered IL-10 therapy elicits beneficial effects via immune modulation in organic dust exposure-induced lung inflammation. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 153:2, Supplement, AB247, 2024. https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(23)02282-0/fulltext
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Moravec, G., A.D. Schwab, A.J. Nelson, A.M. Gleason, M.J. Duryee, O. Schanze, D. J. Romberger, T. A. Wyatt, G.M. Thiele, T.R. Mikuls, and J.A. Poole. Targeting Infiltrating Lung Monocyte-Macrophages to Reduce Environmental Exposure-Induced Lung Disease. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 153:2, Supplement, AB247, 2024. https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(23)02283-2/fulltext
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