Gearing Up for safety

As you explore this site, you will find a wealth of educational and informational resources. If you are a secondary professional educator, this site provides you with:

High quality lessons covering a wide range of Agriculture safety topics
15 core lessons for certification with a final exam covering all of the core lessons
Over 30 student-focused activity sheets
A glossary of over 400 Agriculture terms with pictures
A 10-question review quiz for each lesson
Nearly 100 case studies based on actual Agriculture injuries
Supplemental lessons covering general disease prevention, fire, biosecurity in ag, farm stress, and more.

PowerPoints on Safety

15+ interactive & engaging PowerPoint lessons with instructor notes and teacher aids to help the instructor through the content.

Video Safety Overview

In addition to the Powerpoints, each lesson has a two part self study video going over the content with examples and diagrams of what is being explained.

Activity Sheets

With each lesson there are activity sheets, review questions, quizs, and teaching aids.

Welcome to the Gearing Up for Safety: Production Agriculture Training for Youth educational website! We are delighted you are here.

For youth who are 14 and 15 years of age, this course will provide them with the materials needed to be certified through the Department of Labor’s Hazardous Occupations in Agriculture Order (HOOA). Receiving this certificate enable youth 14 to 15 years of age to perform jobs listed as potentially hazardous such as operating a tractor over 20 PTO hp. To learn more about HOOA please checkout the resources under the “Appendices” section.

We hope you find this site to be an excellent learning resource. If you have questions please do not hesitate to contact us at agsafety4youth@lists.purdue.edu or 765.494.8424.