MEMBERSHIP

Benefits

♦ Quarterly newsletters

♦ Annual conference

♦ Membership Directory

♦ Professional development seminars

♦ Proceedings and technical papers

♦ Professionals address listed on NIFS' web site

♦ Opportunities to network with safety and health professionals from across the United States, Canada, and Europe

 

Click here to pay your dues online

Click here to download the Membership Application

 

Associate membership
Any individual who has contributed or is now contributing time and effort to the farm safety and/or health movement is eligible to apply for Associate Membership under this section. 

Full membership
Any individual presently engaged in educational, engineering, or research safety and/or health activity with or for farm people and devotes a considerable portion of time to such work and having been so engaged for a minimum of three years, and having served two years as an Associate Member, shall be eligible to make application under this section. 

Student membership
Any student is eligible to apply for student membership if the head of the program of study in which he/she is enrolled confirms inwriting the applicant's status as a student. 

Supporting membership
Any person, firm, association, organization, or corporation having an interest in the farm safety and/or health movement and giving a minimum annual contribution that is accepted by the Board of Directors shall be known as a Supporting Member for the year in which the contribution was made. Individuals who represent Supporting Member organizations do not have voting privileges based on that representation alone.

Issue Committees 
Every member is strongly encouraged to join an NIFS issue committee. The primary purposes of these committees are to keep members abreast of current issues and research needs and to identify professional improvement topics.

The four specialized issue committees are:

♦ Traffic and Transportation

♦ Tractors and Machinery 

♦ Rural Occupational Health 

♦ Home, Farmstead, and Leisure Time 

 

For additional information please contact:

Nancy Hetzel, Treasurer
895 Smith Rd.
Charles Town, West Virginia 25414

Phone: (304) 728-0011
email: ghetzel@citlink.net