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Join us for CLA's Quarter Three Safety Group Training on September 17th in Greeley, CO at the Flood & Peterson Office. The livestock producer safety training seminar will include a presentation on zoonotic disease risks and proper PPE use and a presentation on ATV/UTV riding safety. 

  8:45       Check In

  9:10       Welcome

  9:15       Zoonotic Disease Risk; Making a Safe Environment for You and Your Animals Julia Herman, Beef Cattle Specialist Veterinarian, NCBA

Dr. Julia Herman serves as the Beef Cattle Specialist Veterinarian at the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. She has spent time in private practice in Kansas, teaching livestock medicine in the Colorado State University Veterinary Medicine program, and currently leads education development and veterinary outreach for the Producer Education team and Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program.

Her focuses include improving animal health and welfare, biosecurity, and employee education. She represents NCBA on cattle health and welfare advisory committees for national veterinary organizations and agricultural groups. Julia earned her DVM (2015) and MS (2013) from Colorado State University and is a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine.

  10:20       Workplace Policies for Safer ATV/UTV Riding Whitney Pennington, Outreach Manager, HICAHS        

Whitney Pennington is the Outreach Manager for the High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, located at Colorado State University. In her role, she promotes best practices for farm safety, particularly those identified through the Center’s research. 

Whitney has 10 years of experience in health communications, mostly focusing on risk communications and safety, and she enjoys the challenges of translating research findings into real-world programs that help people stay safe at work and at home. Whitney earned her Masters in Public Health from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. 

  11:20       Wrap Up and Head Home