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Publication offers tips on dairy safety

Friday, November 7, 2008 8:38 AM CST

BROOKINGS, S.D. - Managing safety risks at the dairy farm is the topic of a new publication from South Dakota State University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

SDSU Extension Fact Sheet 950, “Safety Risk Areas at the Dairy Farm,” is available online at this link: http://agbiopubs.sdstate.edu/articles/FS950.pdf.

The seven-page publication discusses slips, trips and falls; the feeding alley; the silage pile; the hospital pen; the bull pen; high-traffic roads around facilities.

The publication also addresses hazards in the living facilities provided by the farm; manure decomposition and gas emissions; working with dairy machinery; the milking parlor; working with dairy cows; power tools; chemicals and veterinary drugs; and First Aid and emergency response. Consult the publication for details.

Authors of the publication are SDSU project assistant U. Francesa, University of Nebraska Extension dairy specialist J. Keown, University of Minnesota Extension dairy specialist M. Endres, Iowa State University Extension dairy specialist C. Mondak, and SDSU Extension dairy specialist Alvaro Garcia.

The publication was made possible through the A Farm Safety Training Program on Human Risk Management for Dairy Producers Using a Labor Force Including Hispanic Workers project. The USDA North Central Risk Management Education Center and the Midwest Dairy Consortium co-fund the project.