This curriculum has six modules:

1. The Background: This first module covers health & safety regulations, worker compensation laws, and protection standards and environmental regulations.
2. Basic Safety: Students will learn to assess and respond to hazards on the farm by learning appropriate age-related tasks, review safety equipment and common injuries involving youth and how to perceive risks. They will also learn how to respond to emergency situations with training in first aid and CPR.
3. Agricultural Hazards: Awareness of hazards is the first step to safety. This module will cover multiple hazards found on a farm such as mechanical, respiratory, electrical, and chemical and fire, as well as confined spaces and age appropriate tasks working with livestock.
4. The Tractor: General characteristics and operating a tractor are covered in both the online and in-person trainings. Tractor hazards such as overturns, runovers and PTO entanglements are emphasized in this module. The North American Guidelines for Children’s Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) Operations chart will be covered.
5. Implements: Learning how to hitch and unhitch implements, as well as maneuvering a tractor forwards and backwards while pulling an implement will be covered in the online lessons as well as the in-person driving skills test.
6. Telehandlers: This lesson covers other types of equipment that youth could be asked to use including telehandlers, and ATV’s and utility equipment, plus auger, silage and elevator safety. Proper loading and towing of equipment will also be covered.