Farm Safety Training

Personnel who will be operating tractors must attend Farm Safety training offered by Environmental Health & Safety at the time of initial assignment and at least annually thereafter. 

Training will address the following topics:

• Safe operation and servicing of certain equipment, including tractors;
• Prohibition of extra riders on tractors;
• Common hazards (i.e. rollover, entanglement, hazardous energy sources); 
• Safe operation, including stability, hitching and driving on slopes ;
• Rollover protection (ROPS) requirements; and 
• Machine guarding and shielding.

Other Farm-related Hazards

Additional training may be required depending on the hazard exposed to during agricultural work.