A good night's sleep is less costly than applying pesticides improperly or damaging equipment. Act defensively to protect yourself from others, as when driving on the highway. Make sure you don't endanger others by taking unnecessary risks or operating equipment in an unsafe manner. Other industries have reduced illness, injury and death rates through a combination of worker training and maintaining safe working conditions. Besides preventing pain and suffering, you can increase your profits by reducing medical expenses, lost time, lost production, repair costs and insurance premiums.
Safety is no accident.
It is a responsibility and a way of life. This news release was distributed by the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901. Timothy G. Prather, Agricultural Safety Specialist, Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, Knoxville, Tennessee 37901.