Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 09:37AM Webmaster Preventing falls in agriculture may have the greatest impact in employee safety. The National Safety Council’s Agriculture Division (NSCAD) identifies falls as the most common type of accident in the agricultural industry. Preventing injury helps keeps the cost of operations lower. Here are the recommendations of the NSCAD:
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 03:53PM Webmaster More families are choosing to deep fry their turkeys instead of roasting.
While some people rave about the taste of deep fried turkeys, The National Protection Association safety experts are concerned that backyard chefs may be sacrificing safety for good taste. Also Underwriters Laboratories Inc., an independent, not-for-profit product safety testing and certification organization that tests products for public safety has decided not to certify any turkey fryers with their UL Mark of approval. Both agree that turkey fryers can present the following hazards:
Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 02:24PM Webmaster Ahhhh. Harvest time.
Cherries, peaches, pears, apricots, plums and apples. Local orchardists are reaping the rewards of their hard work.
Unfortunately many of those fruit trees are quite tall; tall ladders are needed to complete the harvest. You know, all that about “low hanging fruit…..” Low hanging fruit is easily harvested, but no orchardist want to leave over half of his crop on the trees.