Fl4-L«ncwter Farming, Friday, January 10, 1997
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.
Growing use of the Internet has
prompted a national youth agri
cultural safety program 10 create a
news column dedicated to helping
students and their teachers locate
safety material electronically.
The Partners for a Safer Com
munity™ program’s quarterly
newsletter recently began includ
ing the “Online” department to as
sist readers find their way through
the Internet maze. The column
provides information on World
Wide Web sites, offers helpful
hints and discusses current elec
tronic developments.
Two years ago, a National FFA
Organization survey of its advi
sers indicated that nearly one
quarter of the agriculture instruc
tors had access to the Internet. Na
uonal trends suggest the numbers
may be much higher today.
“The Internet has become in
creasingly popular as an electronic
library, reference and information
exchange mechanism,” said Julie
Sessions, program director and
editor of Partners for a Safer Com
munity. “We hope to encourage
the use of this tool to locale agri
culture safely and health mforma
uon.”
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Youth Ag Safety Program Assists Internet Users
As a special project of the Na
tional FFA Foundation, Inc., the
Partners for a Safer Community
program is a growing collabora
tive effort to compile and distri
bute youth agricultural safely edu
cation resources to teachers and
community leaders across the
United States.
The following “Online” excerpt
comes from the summer 1996 is
sue of the Partners for a Safer
Community newsletter. The indi
vidual World Wide Web sites can
be accessed by entering the “http”
address in the reference bar of the
search engine included in most In
ternet packages.
Ag Education
• Departmental Research Foci
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/
~agenhtml/age safe.html Purdue
University provides good infor
mation on computer-aided in
struction in farm tractor and ma
chinery safety on this home page.
• National FFA Online http:
//wwwifa.org Here you’ll find
general National FFA Organiza
tion and agricultural education in
formation. Also available arc ex
cerpts from FFA publications, in
formation on awards and
scholarships, FFA documents for
downloading and links to other
agricultural sites.
Government Agencies
• Cooperative Extension Sites
http://leviathan.tamu.edu:7o/0
/elsewher/AGWebs.html Finding
an electronic link to state coopera
tive extension sites and servers is
easy using this Internet directory.
• NIOSH AgCenters http:
//www-oem.ucdavis.edu/www/ni
osh.html This site offers NIOSH
Agricultural Health and Safety
Center news updates and includes
data on related servers.
• Rural Information Center
Health Services (RICHS) http://
www.nal.usda.gov/ric/richs
RICHS is one of the best refer
ences for finding information on
Office of Rural Health Policy,
funding resources, upcoming con
ferences, publications and a myr
iad of agricultural safely topics.
Youth Safety
•Children’s Safety Network
http://www.cdc.org/HHD/csn/
This site offers a link to the Chil
dren’s Safety Network National
Injury and Violence Prevention
Resource Center. It discusses cur
rent prevention projects and also
offers a lisung of other youth in
jury prevention sites on the Inter-
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