NECAS sponsoring educational webinars for National Farm Safety and Health Week

Monday, September 11, 2023

NECAS is the agricultural partner for the National Safety Council and has been serving the agricultural family and business community since 1997. 

NORTHEAST IOWA–The National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS) at Northeast Iowa Community College’s Peosta campus will be sponsoring webinars in observance of National Farm Safety and Health Week, Sept. 17-23. 

The 2023 theme for National Farm Safety and Health Week is “No One Can Take Your Place.” Educational webinars are scheduled for each day of the week and are available at necasag.org, as well as more information and public service announcements related to this year’s theme.

Webinar topic areas include:

Monday, Sept. 18: Equipment and Rural Roadway Safety

Tuesday, Sept. 19: Health and Wellness

Wednesday, Sept. 20: Priority Populations

Thursday, Sept. 21: Confined Spaces

Friday, Sept. 22: Brain Health

Each year since 1944, the third week of September has been recognized as National Farm Safety & Health Week. This recognition has been an annual promotion initiated by the National Safety Council and has been proclaimed as such by each sitting U.S. President since Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the first document. Over the years, the development and dissemination of National Farm Safety & Health Week materials shifted from the National Safety Council to NECAS. NECAS is the agricultural partner for the National Safety Council and has been serving the agricultural family and business community since 1997. 

As we recognize National Farm Safety & Health Week this September, please join us in promoting safe and healthy practices on our farms and ranches across the U.S. and in our neighboring countries as producers enter the harvest season. 

2023 National Farm Safety and Health Week sponsors are Nationwide, CHS and GROWMARK. For more information, visit necasag.org.