National Farm Safety & Health Week 2025: Safety First, Avoid the Worst

JEFFERSON CITY – National Farm Safety and Health Week will take place from September 21-27, 2025. This year’s theme, decided by the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS), is “Safety First – Avoid the Worst.”

 

 

Each weekday has its own topic: today is Equipment and Rural Roadway Safety; Tuesday is Health and Wellness; Wednesday is Generations of Farming; Thursday is Confined Spaces; and Friday is ATV/UTV Safety.

 

AgriSafe Network, a national nonprofit, is offering 10 free webinars – two per day – from Monday the 22nd through Friday the 26th. All 10 webinars will have live Spanish interpretation, and will take place virtually in the AgriSafe Learning Lab from 11 am-noon CT and 1-2 pm CT.

 

For more information or to register, visit: https://learning.agrisafe.org/national-farm-safety-training-topics. 

 

Webinar schedule and topics include:

  • 22 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Road Safety and Agriculture as We Age
  • 22 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Farm Equipment Hits the Highway: Growing Risks and Smarter Solutions
  • 23 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Changing Our Mental and Emotional Trajectory (COMET) Community Training
  • 23 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Strong Roots: Keeping Farming in the Family Through Health and Resilience
  • 24 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Communication Coaching to Support Farm Harmony Across Generations
  • 24 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Too Young to Plow Alone: Keeping Youth Safe on the Farm with AYWG & HAYWG
  • 25 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Confined Spaces in Agriculture
  • 25 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: AgriSafe Natural Disaster Recovery Response Think Tank
  • 26 11:00 am – 12:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Safe Operation of ATVs and UTVs for Agriculture
  • 26 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CDT
    Webinar: Wheels of Misfortune: Off-Road Vehicles on Public Roadways

 

The 2022 data for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the agricultural sector is still the most dangerous in America with 417 fatalities. Fall harvest time can be one of the busiest and most dangerous seasons of the year for the agriculture industry. For this reason, the third week of September has been recognized as National Farm Safety and Health Week. This annual promotion initiated by the National Safety Council has been proclaimed as such by each sitting U.S. President since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. 

 

For more information about National Farm Safety and Health Week, visit: National Farm Safety and Health Week – AgriSafe Network.