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Stock your medicine cabinet with first aid materials and medications. Lock the cabinet or make medicines otherwise inaccessible if you have small children or when grandchildren visit. Check the cabinet to remove old or outdated materials and leftover prescriptions.
• If a family member or worker has heart trouble, diabetes, or another health problem that could bring about sudden disability, make sure you and others on the farm know what to do if that person becomes ill.
• Attend training classes in first aid, CPR, defensive driving, and safe machinery’ operation. Keep up to date through reading and refresher courses. Encourage youth to take part in school, 4-H, and Future Farmers of America safety and health projects. Encourage others to work safely.
Eating and drinking the right things in moderation will contribute to life-long good health and ability to work, drive, and play safely. Proper nutrition can provide the energy farmpeople need for long workdays and time with family and friends. Nutritionists recommend that we eat a balanced diet in the amount of each of us needs for our individual requirements.
Hardworking farmers need to eat a good breakfast and need to take periodic breaks with or without refreshment to fight fatigue and drowsiness. Eating candy bars and sugary drinks can result in “sugar blues” (momentary rise in blood sugar then quick drop as body signals for extra insulin to metabolize the sugar). Farmers would do better to eat fresh fruit or snacks with complex carbohydrates that are absorbed more slowly and keep blood sugar stable.
Mr. Williams is Rappahannock County’s Extension Agent for Agriculture. For more information about farm safety contact Mr. Williams at the county Extension Office (675-J619).
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