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The thin line marks today, 29 September 2026.

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National Farm Safety and Health Week

National Farm Safety and Health Week falls in the third week of September, as the United States harvest gets under way. Farm families, co-operatives, extension services and rural fire departments use it to talk about tractor and roadway crashes, grain bin entrapment, confined spaces, farmer health and stress. Agriculture is still the most dangerous industry in America, and most of those deaths involve people who work alone.

The organiser has not announced the next dates. This page will carry them as soon as National Education Center for Agricultural Safety (NECAS) publishes them.

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When it falls

Dates are announced by the organiser each year.

Also known as: NFSHW, Farm Safety Week.

Where it came from

National Farm Safety and Health Week was started by the National Safety Council and has been proclaimed by every sitting United States president since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. It is placed in the third week of September because fall harvest is one of the busiest and most dangerous stretches of the farming year. The week is now led by the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety, the National Safety Council's agricultural partner, which sets a theme and runs free webinars on a daily topic.

First observed in 1944.

The organiser’s account of the day

How organisations mark it

  • Register for the free NECAS daily-topic webinars and watch one a day with the whole farm crew.
  • Check lighting, markings and slow-moving vehicle emblems on every machine that goes on the road.
  • Agree a written rule that nobody enters a grain bin while equipment is running, and stick to it.
  • Run a first aid and emergency plan check: who is called, from where, and how they find you.
  • Use the health and wellness day to talk openly about stress, fatigue and where to get help.

Why this exists

Workplace & farm

nearly three millionwork-related deaths a year

Work-related deaths worldwide — worldwide, 2023. Source: International Labour Organization, Nearly 3 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases (news release) (2023).

“Nearly three million workers die every year due to work-related accidents and diseases”

More figures for this hazard

ObservanceNextKindWhereHazards
Grain Bin Safety Week21–27 February 2027 ExpectedWeekUnited StatesWork
National Safety Month1–30 June 2027 ExpectedMonthUnited StatesWorkRoadFalls

Sources

  1. National Farm Safety and Health Week 2026 — NECAS — www.necasag.org, read 15 September 2026.
  2. National Farm Safety and Health Week 2025 — NECAS — www.necasag.org, read 15 September 2026.

Page last confirmed against the organiser on 15 September 2026.