Some partners have tractor safety campaigns that are already underway. Learn more by going directly to their web sites.
Child Tractor Safety
Childhood Agricultural Safety Network
http://www.childagsafety.org/
Annually, more than 100 children are killed and 26,000 seriously injured on US farms.Tractors are responsible for 41% of the accidental farm deaths of children under 15, and yet four out of five farm children regularly ride tractors with family members. Farms are wonderful places for children to growup. Unfortunately, riding on the tractor with parents or grandparents, is considered part of the farming tradition. The Childhood Agricultural Safety Network (CASN), a national coalition of health and safety organizations, understands the risks of farming and has taken a "tough love" approach, stating that it is never okay for a child younger than 12 to be on or near a tractor. While riding the tractor may be a family tradition, "it's easier to bury a tradition than a child."
New
York’s ROPS Retrofit Rebates
For NY Farmers – call 1-877-ROPS-R4U
http://ropsr4u.com/
Overturns are the most frequent cause of fatalities in
the farming community and roughly half of tractors in
New York lack roll-over protective structures (ROPS),
roll-bars that prevent overturn injuries and death. The
New York ROPS Retrofit Rebate Program started in 2006. The
program provides rebate funding and technical assistance
for farmers to retrofit their unprotected tractors with
ROPS. The New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and
Health/Northeast Center for Agricultural and Occupational
Health has organized this retrofit program which now
provides rebates of 70% (up to $703) of the entire cost
to retrofit a tractor, as well as toll-free hotline assistance
locating and pricing ROPS kits. In the first year
of the program, more than 1000 farmers contacted the
hotline, resulting in 259 completed retrofits, 80 additional
designated rebates, and another 400 rebates to be processed
pending additional funding. Due to the encouraging response
from the farming community, another round of rebate funding
has been granted by the New York State Legislature. The
program will continue to offer rebates and assistance
as long as funding is provided. This program is available
to all farmers in New York. Interested individuals should
contact the hotline by calling 1-877-ROPS-R4U. It’s
a call you can afford to make.
Need technical assistance? Contact Stacey Holland, sh3@u.washington.edu
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