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Health Risk Planning: A Health, Disability, and Long Term Care Planning Tool for Farm Businesses
Steve Richards, NY FarmLink, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University
Item EB 2003-19. $15. To order, fill out the
order form [http://aem.cornell.edu/order/pub_order_form.pdf]
and mail it to: AEM Publications c/o Linda Putnam 305 Warren Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853-7801
http://www.farmedic.com/
Cornell University Ag Health & Safety Program The mission of FARMEDIC Training
Inc. is to design, develop, implement, and evaluate training programs for emergency
providers and agricultural workers to reduce mortality, injury, and property loss
resulting from agricultural emergencies. Cornell FARMEDIC Training Program 777
Warren Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: (607) 257-9700 or 1-800-437-6010 Fax: (607)
257-5041 E-mail:
twh9@cornell.edu (Ted Halpin,
Extension Support Specialist)
http://www.nycamh.com/
Established by the New York State Legislature in 1988. Recognizing the unacceptably
high rates of occupational injury and illness in New York's largest industry,
the legislature has charged NYCAMH to provide:
- Research into the causes and prevention of agricultural injury and illness
- Education and prevention activities within the farm community
- Education of professionals serving the farm community
- Clinical help for farm-related health problems
NYCAMH 1 Atwell Rd. Cooperstown, NY 13326 Phone: 1-800-343-7527 Fax: (607) 547-6087
http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/
Center for Disease Control NASD is a national central repository of agricultural
health, safety, and injury prevention materials for the agricultural community
and especially for agricultural safety specialists. The mission of the NASD project
is:
- To provide a national information resource for the dissemination of information;
- To identify and disseminate prevention information to agricultural workers
on occupational hazards associated with injuries, death, and illness;
- To promote the consideration of safety and health issues into the management
of agricultural operations for the purpose of reducing agricultural work-related
injuries and illnesses; and
- To provide a convenient way for members of the agricultural safety and health
community to share educational and research materials with their colleagues.
Publications from NRAES (Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service)
Call or write to: NRAES Cooperative Extension P.O. Box 4557 Ithaca, NY 14852-4557
Phone: (607) 255-7654 Fax: (607) 254-8770 E-mail: nraes@cornell.edu
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AE228
Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida Cooperative Extension Service
This factsheet describes some important resources which farmers and ranchers can access over the World Wide Web to get up-to-date information on every aspect of agricultural safety and health.
http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp/backgroundpage.htm
The Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project is a team of researchers and outreach
specialists who find and share work efficiency methods that improve health, safety,
and profits for dairy, fresh market vegetable, and berry farmers. Their goal is
to help farmers prevent pain and injury so they can keep farming, perform daily
household tasks, and enjoy life. They also try to promote cost effective solutions
that farmers will adopt. Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits Project University of
Wisconsin-Madison Biological Systems Engineering 460 Henry Mall Madison, WI 53706
