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Causes: Disaster Aid, Safety Education
Mission: Agsafe's mission is to advance the food and farming industries' commitment to a safe, sustainable workforce and food supply by providing practical education and resources.
Programs: The agsafe annual conference is the largest, most diverse agricultural safety, health, human resources and food safety educational event in the u. S. , offering over 100 classes in the essential worker safety, health, human resources and food safety issues impacting the food and farming industries.
agsafe offers a variety of community-based trainings across the u. S. Addressing both universal as well as commodity-specific safety, health, human resources, and food safety issues. These programs range from one-hour updates to multi-day certificate programs and conferences and are offered in person as well as online in webinar format.
agsafe offers the agricultural laws and regulations for growers and farm labor contractors program - a monthly 9-hour seminar designed to provide agricultural employers an overview of the essential safety, health and human resources regulations impacting their businesses. The course satisfies continuing education requirements as part of the farm labor contractor licensing process in california.
agsafe provides one-on-one assistance to individual growers, packers, shippers, processors and farm labor contractors. In these instances, agsafe may conduct company-specific training, audit company safety and human resources policies and/or assist the company in developing and fine-tuning its safety, health, human resources and food safety programs. Agsafe receives grants for industry outreach, new safety training curriculum development and implementation of existing safety, health and human resources education programs.