Prevention

Keeping your family, workers, and self safe all day, every day!

Preventing Illness and Injury in the Agricultural Industry!

Agriculture is a dangerous industry. Agriculture ranks as the third most hazardous industry in Canada with respect to rates of fatal injury.

Farming and ranching are completex, physically demanding, and stressful. Preventing illness and injury is important to having a healthy, safe, and productive operation.

In collaboration with the provincial department of Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, we have customized SafeThink for the Alberta agricultural industry.

SafeThink Agriculture - Alberta

Farmers and ranchers have contributed to the development of the manual. The training manual uses agriculture-specific examples and places a strong emphasis on hazards and the conditions, actions, and events that lead to or create hazardous situations. Options for controls to prevent illness and injury are provided. Participants apply the SafeThink strategy to their operations so that the strategy has meaning and value.

Thinking and planning ahead are encouraged. Human factors affecting safety are also discussed.