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Abstract. Growing Safe Tigers, an agricultural safety program was developed at Clemson University in the spring of 2019. The program focused on safety education in agriculture for youth ages 14-18. The format was a six-hour field day in which participants rotated through ten unique 25-minute interactive stations. The stations engaged the participants in various topics related to agricultural tasks that were identified as typical problem areas with high potential for agriculturally related incidents. The program was equipped to teach safety in the following areas: tractor and equipment maintenance and operation, roll-over protective structures (ROPS), power hand-tools, pesticides, electrical systems, lawn mower maintenance and operation, grain handling equipment and structures, safe loading procedures, hazard identification, and all-terrain/utility task vehicles (ATV/UTV). The program focused on maintaining an interactive demonstration unit in each subject using physical demonstration units. Growing Safe Tigers has a custom ROPS demonstration unit utilizing a lawn mower mounted to a utility trailer that rotates roughly 200 degrees, allowing the instructor to effectively convey necessary information regarding equipment rollovers. The unit also features a power take-off (PTO) demonstration. To date, the program conducted five field days at research and education centers throughout the entire state of South Carolina. Over 125 students were engaged in safety education at the five field days. Pre and post-tests were administered at the field days and reflected that participation in the safety demonstrations had a statistically significant, positive influence on post-test scores for general safety concepts.

Support for this program was provided by Clemson University Cooperative Extension service and the South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation.