Safety in Agriculture for Youth

Safety in Agriculture for Youth

·        INTRODUCTION

Safety in Agriculture for Youth (SAY) may be a grant project funded by the America Department of Agriculture (USDA), National Institute of Food and Agriculture to develop a property and accessible national clearinghouse for agricultural safety and health programme for youth. For the funding period of 2017 – 2021, the SAY Project now consists of three funded project that each focus on a different aspect of youth farm safety. The comes square measure housed at the University of Nebraska eye, the Ohio State University and Purdue University and will respectively focus on the SAY National Clearinghouse Project (e.g., SAY Clearinghouse, curricula submission and review, and marketing), Youth Farm Safety Education and Certification (YFSEC) Instructor Training and YFSEC Youth Training.

***New Resources***

Power, Structural and Technical System Teacher Resource Guide - Resource can assist instructors with group action curricula hosted within the SAY Clearinghouse by providing teaching ways to instructors on making ready students with safety instruction.

·        SAY National Clearinghouse

The SAY National Clearinghouse consists of two different types of educational products: formal curricula and other supporting resources and provides their alignment to Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources (AFNR) Career Cluster Content Standards associated with agricultural safety and health. Click on the link below to access the SAY National Clearinghouse:

·        SAY National Clearinghouse

Each educational resource has a page that provides you with a description, type of resource, language (English and/or Spanish), website link to resource, and alignment chart to AFRN standards.

Submitting your Ag Safety and Health Curriculum

Click HERE to be directed to submission directions and link to submit your programme through the programme Alignment Submission Tool (CAST).

Belief Statements & Guiding Principles for Youth operating in atomic number 47

The Safety in Agriculture for Youth (SAY) Project National commission developed a belief statements document relating to youth operating in agriculture. The belief statements define consensus-based beliefs and principles that promote safety and health for youth operating in agriculture. Click HERE for more information.

·        Injury Risk Assessment for SAE

The injury risk assessment for supervised agricultural expertise (SAE) was developed by Utah State University through the SAY Project. Click HERE to access all of the components of the risk assessment.

OSHA 10-Hour General Industry (Agriculture) Course

CareerSafe is currently giving a web coaching course providing coaching for entry level staff and employers. Visit the SAY National Clearinghouse for more information about the online training course.

National Youth Farm and Ranch Safety Symposium

The National Youth Farm and Ranch Safety conference was command in October 2014 in Lexington, KY. Click HERE to learn more about the symposium and to view the presentations.

·        Connecting with SAY

How to get connected? To stay up-to-date on the SAY Project and its objectives, sign up for alerts by subscribing to the listserv at SAY-L-subscribe-request@lists.psu.edu. Follow SAY on Facebook (AgSafety4u) and Twitter (@AgSafety4u). If you've got any feedback or suggestions, email Linda Fetzer at lmf8psu.edu.