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Lesson with
Quizzing
Safe Pig Handling
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Lesson with
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Safety is a huge issue on farm.
We seek to approach the subject
in a way that will be inclusive
• Appeals to variety of learner
backgrounds
– Education level
– Farm experience
• English and Spanish outputs
Messages are understood and
put into practice.
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Lesson with
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Approach:
• Develop highly visual and
task-oriented lessons
• Develop an interface that is
intuitive and engaging
• Develop a content rich
training tool that reflects the
realities of the in-barn
experience
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Lesson with
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Output requirements:
• How do we reach…
– the farm with high-speed
internet
– the farm with dial-up internet
– the farm with no internet
connection
We have designed multiple
outputs to reach farms with
a variety of technological
needs.
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Safe Pig Handling Project Scope
• Six lessons covering critical barn safety concerns for
employees.
• Final outputs per lesson include:
1. Multimedia lesson designed for self-directed studyincorporates high quality videos, and interactive
quizzes
2. PowerPoints available for live presentation of learning
objectives
3. In-Barn Handouts providing lesson review and taskbased verification of employee’s knowledge and skills
• All outputs in English and Spanish
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Lesson with
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Safe Pig Handling Lesson
Topics
1. Pig Behavior and You
2. Training and Handling
Boars
3. Moving Pregnant Sows
and Gilts to Farrowing
4. Weaning Sows
5. Weaning Pigs
6. Market Hogs
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Lesson with
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Potential Lessons
• Heat-Checking in Pens
• Heat-Checking in Stalls
• Injecting Sows
• Processing
• Identification and
Treatment of Wean to
Market Hogs
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Lesson with
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Multimedia Lesson
• Employees are able
to control the pace
of their learning
process
– They are free to play
the lesson from the
beginning or to
navigate through
chapters of interest
for review
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Lesson with
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Multimedia Lesson
• Each chapter includes
a narrated video with
bullets to emphasize
key points
• Lessons navigation is
easy and intuitive
– Play and Pause
– Previous and Next
– Toggle through menu
at the top of the page
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Lesson with
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Multimedia Lesson
• Employees have access to a
“Glossary” at all times
throughout the lesson as
well as a link to additional
“Resources” in the form of
National Pork Board’s TQA
and PQA documents
• EXAMPLE
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Lesson with
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Multimedia Lesson
• Features interactive quiz questions
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PowerPoint
• A version of the multimedia lesson with notes for
someone to present live on farm
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PowerPoint
• Available in both English and Spanish
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PowerPoint
• Notes appear on the presenter’s screen below the
slide
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• Double-sided document
– Side 1: Employee Review
• Serves as lesson summary and visual outline of key safety
points
– Side 2: Verification of Skills Checklist
• Provides series of in-barn tasks for employees to complete
under manager supervision designed to promote hands-on
engagement with lesson materials
• Upon completion, both the manager and employee will sign
the document to confirm that employee can apply their
knowlege in-barn
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• Double-sided document
– Side 1: Employee Review
• Serves as lesson summary and visual outline of key safety
points
– Side 2: Verification of Skills Checklist
• Provides series of in-barn tasks for employees to complete
under manager supervision designed to promote hands-on
engagement with lesson materials
• Upon completion, both the manager and employee will sign
the document to confirm that employee can apply their
knowledge in-barn
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In-Barn Handout
• Double-sided document
– Side 1: Employee Review
• Serves as lesson summary and visual outline of key safety
points
– Side 2: Verification of Skills Checklist
• Provides series of in-barn tasks for employees to complete
under manager supervision designed to promote hands-on
engagement with lesson materials
• Upon completion, both the manager and employee will sign
the document to confirm that employee can apply their
knowledge in-barn
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Safe Pig Handling End Product…
• A creative and interactive tool to help farm
understand how to safely work with pigs
• Presents information tailored to a wide range of
educational levels, employee experience, and
English proficiencies
• Has a variety of outputs allowing it to reach
farms with differing technological needs
• Is a product that will improve the health, safety,
and wellbeing of people and pigs on-farm
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Product Distribution
– EXE format (on a thumbdrive) for use on computers
without internet connection
– PowerPoint for live presentations
– And will be accompanied by review handouts and inbarn skill verification checklists for each subject
– Can be linked to online Learning Management
Software
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Smart Handling
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Safe Handling
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