Education
Farm Safety 4 Just Kids offers various resources and programs to help teach farm safety.If you are looking for a specific program, please contact us at (800) 423-5437. New programs and resources are developed each year to help teach farm safety concepts to children and youth. Visit the catalog for more resources or to purchase educational tools.
PROGRAMS
 Generations of Safe and Healthy Farmers
The safety risks on farms today may be different from what they were when today's adults were growing up.
Farm Safety Day Camps
Farm Safety Day Camps can teach children about farm hazards and ways to prevent injury.
Rhythm of the Seasons - Community event manual
This video, book, and video companion can be used as an educational resource to help families learn the importance of staying safe within the farm environment.
MAKE YOUR OWN DISPLAY
RESOURCES (downloadable)
Our resources catalog (PDF file)
Farm Safety Fact Sheets
Informational papers devoted to various topics on helping to develop and maintain a safe and productive farm.
Magazine Articles (PDF)
Teaching Tips
Successful ways to relate the message of farm safety and health to kids creatively. Our site currently has 8 tips available for you to download and use.
- Lock Onto Chemical Safety
Teaching the concepts of safety begins in the home. Explaining how to safely use common household chemicals such as medicines, household cleansers, bug spray, weed killer, etc. is important. This information can then be transferred to the issue of safe chemical use on the farm.
- Animal Safety
Here are some suggestions for teaching kids how to stay safe around animals.
- Tractor Safety: Keep on Track!
Tractors are a dangerous necessity on a farm. These activities will help teach students the dangers and proper uses of the tractor.
- SLOW MOVING VEHICLE (SMV) EMBLEMS
The students will visualize the importance of clean and bright reflective material on visibility from a distance.
- Importance of Clear Instructions
Participants will recognize the importance of training when working on the farm.
- True Confessions
Adolescents will be able to analyze reasons why they have developed attitudes towards safety and behave in certain ways.
- Are you Ready to Ride?
To determine when youth are physically capable of riding an ATV safely.
- Keeping Kids Safe on the Farm-Hazard Recognition
Participants will identify hazards associated with working on the farm.
 Spanish Safety and Health Resource
Migrant Clinicians Network and Farm Safety 4 Just Kids have teamed up to produce a Spanish-language educational comic book targeting migrant and seasonal farmworker families to educate parents about children’s risks to pesticide exposure and ways to minimize these risks.
You may download this PDF version and print it yourself. BE ADVISED, this download is a little over 5 MB in size and is NOT recommended for dial-up users.
An English version of this comic book also exists here. This version is not available to order through Farm Safety 4 Just Kids
EDUCATIONAL PACKETS
The material developed and disseminated by Farm Safety 4 Just Kids was peer reviewed and is intended for general information and educational purposes only and should not be relied upon as medical or legal advice. If legal, medical, or other expert assistance is required, the services of the appropriate professional should be sought.
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