Northeast Center for Occupational Health and Safety - NEC

01/01/2026

Wishing a year of happiness and prosperity for all! Happy 2026. 🎉

We hope 2026 brings you good health and happiness. Happy New Year!

11/20/2025

Congrats, Sue! And thank you for everything. 💙

11/17/2025

Meet our AgFF Hero: Dr. Jennifer Lincoln!

The Northeast Center and New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health (NYCAMH) team is thrilled to announce the recipient of our eighth annual Hero Award. We have selected Dr. Lincoln in recognition and honor of her lifelong commitment to protecting the health and safety of America’s agricultural, forestry, and fishing workers.

Thank you for your decades of service, Dr. Lincoln!

Read more about her extensive career and accomplishments: https://necenter.org/2025/11/17/northeast-center-nycamh-announce-2025-hero-award-recipient/

10/30/2025

Join us this afternoon at 2 p.m. for our next Fields of Knowledge session! Today, we'll be joined by four ag experts to discuss Dairy Food System Centralization.

Registration is still open! Join the conversation: 66d6aeb5-cb9a-4f02-a4f1-f8ec8e9cde5e@71533e4c-2518-4d48-b4f0-9507733edf1b" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/66d6aeb5-cb9a-4f02-a4f1-f8ec8e9cde5e@71533e4c-2518-4d48-b4f0-9507733edf1b

10/20/2025

Happy National Respiratory Care Week!

This week is National Respiratory Care Week!

Established by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) in 1982, it was first officially proclaimed by President Ronald Reagan to recognize respiratory therapists and draw attention to the importance of lung health.

This week is particularly important to agriculture because of the severe and common respiratory hazards that farmers and farmworkers face every day. We are honored to support the respiratory health of farmers to create a safe and healthy environment for them to do the very important work they do for our nation.

The NYCAMH and Northeast Center team would like to take a moment to thank the amazing respiratory therapists and pulmonologists in the Bassett Healthcare Network. It was our very own pulmonologist Dr. John May who began the NYCAMH program in the 1980s!

Happy National Respiratory Care Week!

09/26/2025

Today's National Farm Safety and Health Week topic is ⚠️ ATV/UTV! Check out the webinars by AgriSafe Network on:

Safe Operation of ATVs + UTVs for Agriculture | 12 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/safe-operation-of-atvs-and-utvs-for-agriculture

Wheels of Misfortune: Off-Road Vehicles on Public Roadways | 2 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/wheels-of-misfortune-off-road-vehicles-on-public-roadways

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09/25/2025

Today's National Farm Safety and Health Week topic is ⚠️ Confined Spaces! Check out the webinars by AgriSafe Network on:

Confined Spaces in Agriculture | 12 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/confined-spaces-in-agriculture

AgriSafe Natural Disaster Recovery Response Think Tank | 2 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/agrisafe-natural-disaster-recovery-response-think-tank

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09/24/2025

Today's National Farm Safety and Health Week topic is ⚠️ Generations of Farming! Check out the webinars by AgriSafe Network on:

Communication Coaching to Support Farm Harmony Across Generations | 12 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/communication-coaching-to-support-farm-harmony-across-generations

Too Young to Plow Alone: Keeping Youth Safe on the Farm with AYWG + HAYWG | 2 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/too-young-to-plow-alone-keeping-youth-safe-on-the-farm-with-aywg-haywg

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09/23/2025

Today's National Farm Safety and Health Week topic is ⚠️ Health + Wellness! Check out the webinars by AgriSafe Network on:

Changing Our Mental + Emotional Trajectory (COMET) Community Training | 12 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/changing-our-mental-and-emotional-trajectory-comet-community-training

Strong Roots: Keeping Farming in the Family through Health + Resilience | 2 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/strong-roots-keeping-farming-in-the-family-through-health-and-resilience

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09/22/2025

Today's National Farm Safety and Health Week topic is ⚠️ Equipment and Rural Roadway Safety! Check out the webinars by AgriSafe Network on:

Road Safety + Agriculture as We Age | 12 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/road-safety-and-agriculture-as-we-age

Farm Equipment Hits the Highway: Growing Risks + Smarter Solutions | 2 p.m. EST
https://learning.agrisafe.org/products/farm-equipment-hits-the-highway-growing-risks-and-smarter-solutions

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09/19/2025

Next week is National Farm Safety and Health Week! We're proudly supporting AgriSafe Network's in-depth webinar series covering a new topic each day.

Monday: Equipment + Rural Roadway Safety
Tuesday: Health + Wellness
Wednesday: Generations of Farming
Thursday: Confined Spaces
Friday: ATV/UTV

Visit https://learning.agrisafe.org/national-farm-safety-training-topics to learn more and register!

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08/14/2025

NEC Research Scientist Mandy Roome, PhD, has been leading our efforts in tick and tick-borne illness research for a few years now. She's used to seeing big names associated with her work like borrelia bacteria and anaplasmosis, but Justin Timberlake is a new one!

Lyme disease has both serious short- and long-term impacts on your health. Be sure to heed Mandy's (or Justin's) words of caution and take measures to protect yourself! There are lots of available resources to help you learn how to prevent tick bites and lower your risk of related illnesses.

A tiny tick bite can lead to a life-altering illness. And this year tick bites are way up. What's going on?