by Nate Rippke | Feb 17, 2025 | Publications
We surveyed more than 700 young adults working in U.S. and Canadian agriculture to examine quad bike safety behaviors and awareness of quad bike safety design. We found that participants in our programs who began using quad bikes at young ages (
by Nate Rippke | Feb 17, 2025 | Publications
Perspectives shared at an ATV Safety Symposium and a review of agricultural ATV safety in the U.S. have highlighted the need for building agricultural community awareness of quad bike engineering controls such as CPDs, wider and more stable frame designs, and 126...
by Nate Rippke | Feb 17, 2025 | Publications
The self-reported use of filtering facepiece respirators (N95s) in this study is much higher than reported by older farmers in previous years. Most young adult hog projects (76.2%) stated they were already wearing them– even before participating in our program! There...
by Nate Rippke | Feb 17, 2025 | Publications
This article summarizes infographics formats commonly used in our agricultural safety and health training programs and provides some tips on proper and engaging use of infographics for outreach purposes. We also found that over 70% of participants remembered a key...
by Nate Rippke | Feb 17, 2025 | Publications
With our Australian partners, we describe the development and adaptation of the Gear Up for Ag™ program for an Australian audience. We also report on common farm tasks performed by young people working in Australia, which seem to be centered around the operation and...
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