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Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2003
Contents
ONE-PAGE HURRICANE
PREPAREDNESS CHECKLIST
A 1-page Preparedness checklist, Get
Ready for Anything: Your Plan....Your
Kit.....Your Papers has just been added to the Florida
AgSafe Web site. Look under Emergency Resources and New Material
at the top of the page.
This summarizes the contents of the multiple page checklist contained
in
the Disaster Handbook.
Just a reminder that the complete Disaster
Handbook can be accessed at
<http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu>.
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NATIONAL AGENDA FOR
AGRICULTURAL SAFETY & HEALTH
Twenty members representing diverse institutions
formed the North Central
Regional Committee 197 - Agricultural Safety and Health Research
and
Extension in October 2000. The goal was to utilize the Land Grant
System's
research and extension capacity in cooperation with the experience
of those
who live and work in agriculture to reduce work-related injuries,
illness,
and death.
Their first objective was to establish
a national land grant research and
extension agenda for agricultural safety and health. A document
was
produced, National Land Grant Research and Extension Agenda for
Agricultural Safety and Health. This historical document marks
the first
agricultural safety and health agenda for action by the land
grant system
since 1943.
I do have copies of the publication if
anyone is interested.
This report is on the Internet at: http://www.tmvc.iastate.edu/NCR197/
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NATIONAL AG SAFETY
DATABASE UPDATES
Through grants from NIOSH and USDA-CSREES
we continue to update the
National Ag Safety Database (NASD). Continue to check the site
for new
postings of materials and links. New items added are highlighted
in the
main page "What's New" section:
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd
If there are topics that you are interested
in but cannot find anything in
NASD, please let me know and we will try to see about finding
out if there
is info on the topic that can be added. Likewise if you have
info to be
added let us know.
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SAFETY
NEWS & NOTES is an e-mail
newsletter prepared by Carol J.
Lehtola, Extension Agricultural Safety Specialist, Florida Cooperative
Extension Service, University of Florida, Gainesville. Design
Team FL 124:
Prevention and Preparedness: Agricultural Safety & Disaster
Management.
If you have safety or disaster related questions or ideas that
you would
like to share with other agents, please let me know. If you know
someone
interested in receiving this, we will gladly add them to the
e-mail
list.
BE AWARE!
BE ALERT!
BE ALIVE!
Florida AgSafe Web site:
http://www.flagsafe.ufl.edu
The Disaster Handbook: http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu
National Agricultural Safety
Database: http://www.cdc.gov/nasd
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