Stand Up 4 Grain Safety Week
PM Spanish Session – Grain Safety 101
Photo courtesy of GFAI.
Safety Stats for Spanish Language Workers
H2A workers in 2024, tripling in the past decade.
%
higher job fatality rate for Spanish/Latino workers than the national average. (2023)
%
of Spanish/Latino workers killed on the job are immigrants (2023).
* Spanish Speaking/Latino workers, both US and foreign born, are overrepresented among workers who are injured or killed at work. In 2022, 47% of all employed Latino wokers were foreign born and accounted for 8.6% of all employed workers but made up 14.4% of workplace fatalities. U.S, born Latino workers made up 9.9% of all employed workers and 8.3% of all workplace fatalities.
Featured Training Topic
SPANISH TOPIC – Grain Safety 101
DAILY LEARNING SESSION
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2026
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (CDT)
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Grain Safety 101
FREE, live virtual training provided by the GHSC (Grain Handling Safety Council) and GEAPS (Grain Elevator Processing Society).
Dr. Campabadal presents in Spanish an overview of common hazards associated with grain handling and storage and the best practices to use. This session is packed with information. Topics covered include recognizing potential hazards in grain storage structures, proper entry procedures, entanglement hazards & guarding, “line of fire” hazards resulting in crush and struck by injuries, and other hazards found in the workplace. Participants should leave with an awareness of the types of potential hazards they may encounter in the workplace and the basic knowledge needed to ask further questions during Q and A or at their workplace.
Meet our Presenter!
Presenter – Carlos Campabadal, PhD!
(Espanol – biografia) 
Dr. Carlos Campabadal, PhD, is a faculty member at Kansas State University Department of Grain Science and Industry. He is an extension specialist at the International Grains Program Institute (IGP) focusing on outreach in the areas of grain storage, quality and processing, U.S. grain grading and export systems, and feed manufacturing. He leads the Stored Product Protection Research group and is State Extension Leader of the Feed Technology group. Dr. Campabadal is active in international development with USAID and USDA in Central America and Africa. He has traveled throughout Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe as a technical consultant, translator and speaker in the areas of grain storage and feed manufacturing. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Central America Carlos worked for his family farm operation and feed mill company in process and maintenance engineering and animal farm management (beef cattle and swine) prior to his academic career and remains involved in the family business. (See Full Bio).