Cultivating Agricultural
Health
and Safety in the 21st Century:
I-CASH Endowment Campaign
I-CASH Mission Drives
Effective Programs
“To enhance the health and safety of Iowa’s
agricultural community by establishing and coordinating prevention and
education programs.” This mission underlies the many successful
programs and activities of I-CASH staff and partners. Over the past
14 years, I-CASH has:
• Trained and certified nearly 300 health care providers in agricultural
medicine, some of whom now work in one of the 20 AgriSafe
clinics around Iowa.
• Developed and implemented the voluntary Certified Safe
Farm Program. Its purpose is to reward, through insurance savings
and other incentives, farmers who undergo preventive health screenings
and education, and whose farms pass a safety inspection. Collaborators
on the Certified Safe Farm Program are clinics of the AgriSafe network
including Spencer Municipal Hospital; the National Education Center
for Agricultural Safety in Peosta; Horn Memorial Hospital in Ida Grove;
AgriSafe Rural Neighbors in Grundy, Butler, and Franklin Counties; and
Rural Neighbors in Manchester.
• Led the efforts to prevent tractor-related injuries by establishing
the Tractor Risk Abatement and Control (TRAC) program,
which aims to save as many as 2,000 lives in the U.S. by the year 2010.
• Provided safety education opportunities for
more than 10,000 Iowa youth each year, including farm safety day camps,
tractor certification training, and farm safety in school programming.
• Delivered required federal and state recertification
training for nearly 20,000 private pesticide applicators yearly.
• Addresses the monthly demand of 1,000 calls for information,
referrals, stress counseling and legal education with the Iowa
Concern Hotline.
• Monitored the annual agricultural injury and fatality
rates to better understand agricultural hazards.
