Agricultural Respiratory Hazards – Unit 6 Applied Agricultural Chemicals

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Because pesticides are designed to kill living organisms, they are potentially harmful to people. Through carelessness, delibrate misue and accidents, people exposed to pesticides and their residues may be seriously harmed and even killed. To protect human health, people working with agricultural chemicals must be throughly familiar with their safe use. This unit will discuss aspects of safe pesticide usage that apply to all pesticides. Then, pesticides whose major effects on the respiratory system will be discussed in detail.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards – Unit 7 Infectous Diseases

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This unit will discuss some of the potential diseases that can extist when farmers, ranchers and others are in contact with livestock. It provides a listing of possible diseases and contaminants with detailed information on two specific infectous diseases.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series – Unit 8, Measurement of Agricultural Dusts and Gases

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This unit introduces some of the instruments available to measure dust and gas concentrations and the situation in which the device might be used. It will also suggest ways to abtain measurements when it is not cost effective for you to buy the necessary instruments.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series – Unit 9, Personal Protective Equipment

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This unit describes the list of personal protective equipment that are available to individuals who want to diminsh the risk of an respiratory illness. It outlines a Agricultural respiratoty hazard exposure, classifying hazards and the jobs which more commonly result in the occurance of particular hazards.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series – Unit 3 Grain Dusts

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Exposure to grain dust in many agricultural fields, so much that grain handlers don’t often pay too much attention to them and their potential effects. This extension pubication attempts to answer questiond such as: What are grain dusts? How are grain handlers exposed to grain dust? What are the human health effects of grain dust inhalation? and, How can repiratory illness f4rom grain dust be prevented?

Agricultrual Respiratory Hazards – Unit 4 Livestock Confinement Dusts and Gases

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This unit dicusses livestock and poultry confinement buildings, the dusts and gases found in them, how these dusts and gases effect the human respiratory system, and how confinement building workers can prevent these effects.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series – Unt 5 Oxides of Ntrogen

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This unit discusses oxides of nitrogen or more commonly known as silo gas and a description of silo gas, where it is formed on the farm, formation of silo gas, how and when are you exposed to silo gas, how can oxides of nitrogen be detected and the steps necessat to prevent it.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series, For the Health Professional

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The Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Educational Series discusses the major occupational threats to the respiratory system of those who work in agriculture and related fields. These units are intended to be a practical manual for all those involved in intensive livestock or confined areas. Volume 1 focuses on potential problem areas in an operation that may stimulate respiratory problems in farm workers; respiratory responses to inhales agricultural substances, examining the onset of Bronchitis, Pharyngitis and Rhinitis to name a few; medical surveillance of the Agricultural workforce, detecting which population sectors are at greater risk to develop respiratory problems; finally approaches to prevention of the devlopment of respiratory problems.

Agricultural Respiratory Hazards Education Series – Unit 1

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Unit 2 in the series examining the potential agricultural structures and repiratory hazards that can develop in the agricultural workplace.

Assessment of dust and endotoxin levels in the working environment of Dutch pig farmers: a preliminary study

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