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A Harvest of Safety and Health

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The National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS) is dedicated to preventing illnesses, injuries, and deaths among farmers and ranchers, agricultural and horticultural workers, their families, and their employees. In 1997, we opened NECAS on the Northeast Iowa Community College Peosta Campus. NECAS is the only organization with hands-on farm equipment safety training center. The facility also houses classrooms and a library and resource center.

Our concern for safety in rural areas goes beyond farms and ranches. The need for our services spreads from citrus groves in the South to vineyards in the West. It covers cattle ranches in Wyoming, fisheries in Maine, and thousands of ventures in between.

Services

Like any business, agriculture can be financially set back by safety violations, injuries, illnesses and deaths. NECAS offers safety education and proactive programs to help prevent incidents that affect your agribusiness safety and welfare. Programs include:

Hazardous materials training

Respiratory protection programs

CPR classes

Tractor roll-over protection retrofit programs

Tractor certification programs

Combine safety

Confined spaces

Rescue procedures

(Tractor roll-over, Grain entrapment, Combine, auger extrication, and Manure pit rescues)

Ag Family safety and health programs

Ag safety days

Youth programs

Training seminars tailored to specific needs



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