Stronger together. Safer together.
The Agricultural Safety & Health Council of America, founded in 2007, is a non-profit 501c3 organization established to pursue national strategies to create a less hazardous work environment for American agriculture.
ASHCA is a coalition of more than 50 organizations, businesses, federal agencies, and safety professionals, all seeking to improve the health and safety of farmers, ranchers and agricultural workers.
Our mission is to proactively address ongoing and emerging occupational safety and health issues affecting U.S. agriculture.
Agriculture, due to its decentralized nature and diverse structure, lags other industries in reducing the toll on its workers. Its fatality rate is eight times that of the all-industry average. In a typical year, 551 workers die while doing farm work, and about 88,000 suffer lost-time injuries .
ASHCA holds promise for a coordinated and effective approach to bringing state-of-the-art safety information and programs to address the most pressing occupational hazards associated with various commodities, new technologies, and changing profiles of workers.
