For decades, the go-to strategy for farm safety has been built around one basic principle: reminding people to be careful or to use their common sense. This is where safety management comes in. It’s not a checklist or notebook on a shelf, even if that notebook was given to you by a skilled consultant or HR expert. It’s a mindset. A management style. A set of purposely built relationships.

Efforts to keep yourself and your workers safe should include a look at potential respiratory hazards that anyone who works on a dairy farm may encounter. Dairy producers are routinely exposed to a wide variety of respiratory hazards on the farm including dusts, molds, vapors, and gases.