[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 179 (Friday, September 15, 1995)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 48013-48014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-23161]



      

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Part IV





The President





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Proclamation 6822--National Farm Safety and Health Week, 1995
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                Proclamation 6822 of September 13, 1995

                
National Farm Safety and Health Week, 1995

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                America's agricultural productivity is a gift to our 
                Nation and to people everywhere. Using innovative 
                techniques and the latest technology, our farmers, 
                ranchers, and agricultural workers provide enough food 
                and fiber to satisfy our needs and those of millions of 
                people around the globe. However, we too often forget 
                that farming can be a difficult and dangerous 
                profession.

                 Agricultural workers are exposed daily to the risks 
                associated with operating powerful machinery, managing 
                livestock, working and travelling in adverse weather 
                conditions, and performing countless other demanding 
                tasks, often miles away from emergency medical care. 
                Sadly, children and young people on our farms and 
                ranches are particularly vulnerable to these hazards 
                and more.

                 The simplest safety tool we have at hand is education. 
                By word and by example, we must teach each new 
                generation of Americans about the critical importance 
                of knowledge, caution, and vigilance in farming and 
                ranching activities. Wearing protective clothing and 
                gear, learning the safety features that manufacturers 
                build into equipment, and staying alert to possible 
                dangers when working with livestock, chemicals, 
                machinery, and vehicles--all of these measures can help 
                to ensure longer, healthier lives for America's 
                agricultural workers.

                 As important as education is to the safety and well-
                being of our agricultural workers, we must remember 
                that quality health care is just as critical. We must 
                strengthen our resolve to provide the citizens of our 
                rural areas with high-quality, affordable, and 
                accessible health care if we are truly to meet their 
                needs.

                 By setting aside a special week each year to focus on 
                the need for improved safety and health in our Nation's 
                agricultural industry, we demonstrate to all of our 
                agricultural workers that we value their lives and 
                livelihood, that we appreciate their unsurpassed 
                productivity, and that we honor their determined 
                spirit.

                 NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of 
                the United States of America, by virtue of the 
                authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of 
                the United States, do hereby proclaim September 17 
                through September 23, 1995, as ``National Farm Safety 
                and Health Week.'' I call upon government agencies, 
                businesses, and professional associations that serve 
                our agricultural sector to strengthen efforts to 
                promote safety and health measures among our Nation's 
                farm and ranch workers. I ask these workers to take 
                advantage of educational programs and technical 
                innovations that can help them to avoid injury and 
                illness. Finally, I call upon the citizens of our 
                Nation to reflect on the bounty we enjoy thanks to the 
                labor of agricultural workers across the land. Join me 
                in renewing our commitment to make their health and 
                safety a national priority.

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                 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-five, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twentieth.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 95-23161
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