Workplace Safety Prevention Services – Farm Safety Resources

We hope you have had a safe, healthy, and productive season! As some of you begin to wind things down for the winter, we hope you will do a walk-around to assess your operations and identify anything you may need to fix, change, or replace before spring rolls back around. It may also be a good time to consider any refresher training when you have a little more flexibility in your schedule.

Safety Resources:

Tractor Safety e-course Collisions, entanglements, rollovers, and runovers— are major risks faced by anyone operating tractors or farm machinery. Did you know that over 4,000 lost-time injuries were attributed to tractors and other agricultural vehicles? Even more alarming, tractors alone accounted for 57% of all farm fatalities in Ontario. To address these concerns, we’re excited to introduce the Tractor Safety eCourse.

This concise, 1-hour self-paced online training is designed to:

✅ Identify tractor-related hazards

✅ Implement effective risk-reduction controls

✅ Understand applicable safety legislation

Equip your team with essential safety skills for working with tractors in the field and on the road. 👉 Enroll Now: https://wsps.news/4e1yvA2

Farm Safety Roundup, Ep 11: Grain Entrapment Prevention and Rescue – The speed and force of flowing grain can render a person helpless in seconds and the risk exists not only in grain bins, but gravity wagons and semi-trailers as well. Grain entrapment prevention and rescue is the focus of this episode of Farm Safety Roundup. WSPS Health and Safety Consultant, Ryan Dick joins Real Ag’s Shaun Haney from his farm in Douglas to look at the risks associated with grain handling and storage and to share strategies to prevent grain entrapment with recommendations on how to be well prepared for an emergency.

Some additional grain safety resources:

• Grain entrapment: 5 tips to plan, prepare and prevent tragedy
• Be Grain Safe – Canadian Agricultural Safety Association

How Does Safety Rate On Your Farm – Family Farm Safety Checklist? You can use this simple tool as a starting point to help with a ‘circle check’ of your operations.

Agriculture articles: * Please share with friends, family, coworkers, and others in your network.

• If an injury occurs on your farm, who is responsible? Find out – You recently hire a new worker to help with relief milking. On the fourth day, she gets kicked by a cow and suffers a concussion. As the farm operator, are you directly liable? Find out.
• The ROI of OHS: Boost your farming operation with a strong investment in health and safety – Research shows that an investment in health and safety has led to a 24% ROI. Find out how to achieve that for your farming operation.
• Planning for the unexpected: 10 tips to strengthen your farm’s emergency response plan – Learn what to include in your farm’s emergency response plan to protect your business and workers.
• New producers are the future of safe and productive dairy farms: 5 tips to set them up for success (Dairy focus) – New dairy farmers are joining the industry each year as veteran farmers move closer to retirement. But as new workers, they face higher injury rates. Get 5 expert tips to set them up for success.