resources on Agricultural Health and Safety
AgriSafe Network - "builds the competency of health and safety professionals to deliver exceptional occupational agricultural health care" Browse resources on PPE and air-quality monitoring, young ag workers, health risk assessments, wildfires and more.
Farm and Ranch Stress Assistance Network (run by NIFA) connects farmers, ranchers, and others in agriculture-related occupations to stress assistance programs. In the summer of 2022, the North Dakota Department of Agriculture (NDDA) received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). NDDA will partner with North Dakota State University and the North Dakota Department of Career and Technical Education to initiate, expand, or sustain programs that provide professional agricultural behavioral health counseling and referral for other forms of assistance as necessary through farm telephone helplines and websites, training programs and workshops; support groups; and outreach services and activities.
National Center for Farmworker Health - Mission is "to improve the health status of farmworker families through appropriate application of human, technical, and information resources." Houses the Journal of Agromedicine
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety - one of 11 NIOSH-funded agricultural centers, and the only center dedicated to childhood agricultural injury prevention. Housed within the National Farm Medicine Center (link below).
National Farm Medicine Center - housed within the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute in Wisconsin, browse resources on return to work, seguridad, veteran ag workers and more
NIOSH Safety and Health Topic Agriculture - National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
AgriSafe Training & Resources - access webinars, courses, and resources on an array of topics designed for nurses who serve agricultural workers
CDC Agricultural Safety - access the Centers for Disease Control's "Minority Farm Operator Occupational Injury Surveillance of Production Agriculture (M-OISPA) Survey", the "Farm Safety Survey (FSS)", th "National Agricultural Workers Survey (NAWS)" and other resources
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