Sharing resources that will help farmers and ranchers keep safety top-of-mind through the Agricultural Safety Awareness Program is a priority of county and state Farm Bureau leaders across the nation.
As part of ASAP, Feb. 28 - March 6 has been designated as Agricultural Safety Awareness Week. U.S. Agricultural Safety and Health Centers will join Farm Bureau in promoting the week with its theme âDriving Safety Home.â
A different safety focus will be highlighted by Montana Farm Bureau and U.S. Ag Centers each day of the week:
Monday, March 1 â Farmer Roadway Safety
Tuesday, March 2 â Caretaker Support
Wednesday, March 3 â General Farmer Wellness
02/26/21
NIOSH
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) and the Council for Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation (CAOHC), have the honor of announcing this week the winner of the 2021 Safe-in-Sound Excellence in Hearing Loss Prevention Award™.
This year s award for innovation in hearing loss prevention goes to Vertical Lift, AH-64 Apache Helicopter of the Boeing Company in Mesa, Arizona. The award will be presented live on February 26, 2021 at 3pm EST as part of the 45th annual NHCA conferenceexternal icon happening virtually for the first time this year.
AH-64E Apache Helicopter with Hush kits attached (in white), Mesa, Arizona
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a secret star research subject: a disembodied rubber head with fleshy eyes.
These “pliable elastomeric head forms” were featured in the CDC’s hot new paper on the benefits of wearing two masks at a time. In the study, the heads were attached to a machine that spewed aerosols from their mouthpieces and into different face coverings. The results of the research are clear: Double masking works. If two pliable elastomeric head forms are each wearing two masks, they hardly exchange any aerosols at all.
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We wanted to know more about those horror movie–esque dolls. Slate spoke with Chris Brown, a senior engineer at INSPEC, which is a global personal protective equipment test equipment supplier based in England and the makers of heads similar to those used in the double-mask study. (The only difference: The ones used in the study have ears, while INSPEC’s do not.)
Can I have a dinner party? Yes, but.
It would be safest to wait until everyone getting together is vaccinated, health experts say. The current approved vaccines both require
two shots for them to work most effectively, and full protection may not come until
Although scientists are confident that the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines for COVID-19 are 94% to 95% effective in preventing clinically recognizable disease, they don’t yet know whether vaccinated people can be asymptomatic carriers of the virus.
“We don’t know yet whether [the vaccine] prevents asymptomatic infection,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, said on the “
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