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Abstract. Growing Safe Tigers, an agricultural safety program was developed at Clemson University in the spring of 2019. The program focused on safety education in agriculture for youth ages 14-18. The format was a six-hour field day in which participants rotated through ten unique 25-minute interactive stations. The stations engaged the participants in various topics related to agricultural tasks that were identified as typical problem areas with high potential for agriculturally related incidents. The program was equipped to teach safety in the following areas: tractor and equipment maintenance and operation, roll-over protective structures (ROPS), power hand-tools, pesticides, electrical systems, lawn mower maintenance and operation, grain handling equipment and structures, safe loading procedures, hazard identification, and all-terrain/utility task vehicles (ATV/UTV). The program focused on maintaining an …