Safe Tractor Operations: Foundations of Tractor Safety

Serap Gorucu, Carol J. Lehtola, and Charles M. Brown

Release Date: 6/27/2024

DOI: 10.32473/edis-ae599-2024

Agriculture

Abstract

The Safe Tractor Operations series contains six articles devoted to tractor safety. This publication aims to familiarize new and beginning farmers, Extension agents and specialists, and the public with safe tractor operations. It gives guidance about how everyone in an agricultural operation can work together to make using tractors safer. Written by Serap Gorucu, Carol J. Lehtola, and Charles M. Brown and published by the UF/IFAS Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, June 2024.

About this Publication

This document is AE599, a publication of the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2024. Visit the EDIS website at https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu for the currently supported version of this publication. © 2024 UF/IFAS. This publication is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

About the Authors

Serap Gorucu, assistant professor, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Carol J. Lehtola, professor emerita (deceased), Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; and Charles M. Brown, writer and editor, research communications, University of Florida Transportation Institute Technology Transfer Center (UFTI-T2), UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering; UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.

How to Cite

Gorucu, S., Lehtola, C. J., & Brown, C. M. (2024). Safe Tractor Operations: Foundations of Tractor Safety. EDIS, 2024(3). https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-ae599-2024

Authors

Serap Gorucu

Contact

Specialist

University of Florida

assistant professor, risk analysis, safety, and health of agricultural systems, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

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Carol Lehtola

former associate professor and Extension agricultural safety specialist, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Charles Brown

writer/editor, research communications, University of Florida Transportation Institute Florida Transportation Technology Transfer Center (UFTI-T2), UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, Gainesville, FL

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