Firefighters training for a grain rescue. (Casa-acsa.ca)

Donation offers up more equipment for grain emergencies

Fire departments first must complete CASA training course

Corteva AgriScience Canada is donating equipment that’s expected to help fire departments across the country save farmers’ lives. The company’s funding will purchase GSI RES-Q-TUBE and Haul-ALL pencil augers for eligible fire departments that have taken part in BeGrainSafe training put on by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). The GSI RES-Q-TUBE is a rescue

Footwear is a key aspect of injury prevention, which is why it’s important to wear the right type to ensure your safety.

Best foot forward

Proper footwear selection is an important part of farm safety

We all wear footwear, but how many of us wear the right type for different tasks? On the farm, there are many everyday tasks that could result in injuries to feet or ankles if the proper footwear is not used. Footwear is a key aspect of injury prevention, which is why it’s important to wear


VIDEO: Grain entrapment unit demonstrated at Ag Days

VIDEO: Grain entrapment unit demonstrated at Ag Days

Canadian Agricultural Safety Association soon to have BEGRAINSAFE unit to call its own

Glen Blahey of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) talks about the BEGRAINSAFE unit that was on display and demonstrated to attendees at Ag Days. While the unit on this video is on loan from the National Education Center for Agricultural Safety in Iowa, CASA is building its own grain entrapment demo unit that it

Back to Ag program available

Financial support is available to injured farmers

Injured farmers can now receive financial assistance to acquire technology that makes it possible for them to return to work. The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) in partnership with Farm Credit Canada (FCC) and the Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) is now offering a Back to Ag Program. The Back to Ag Program provides funding to


The community has been hit “very hard” by a farm accident that killed three young sisters, said Sgt. Mike Numan of the Rocky Mountain House RCMP. (Jennifer Blair photo)

Three young Alta. sisters lost to grain truck mishap

Rocky Mountain House | AFE — A community in central Alberta is in mourning following the deaths of three young sisters in a grain truck mishap on Tuesday night. “This is hitting us all very hard. Frontline responders are routinely called out to sad situations, but things are always harder when there’s children involved,” said



Jocelyne Handfield Rheaume, who lost her husband to a work-related farm injury, is featured on a video prepared for Quebec’s Farm Health and Safety Week. (SiOnSavait.ca)

Ag Safety Week urges farmers to “be the difference”

Acting to improve a farm’s safety systems before a problem appears is the focus of this year’s Canadian Agricultural Safety Week, beginning Sunday. The week, running March to 21 in a co-promotion between the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) and the Federation of Agriculture (CFA) with sponsorship from Farm Credit Canada, is themed “Be the Difference.”

Farm Safety Co-Ordinator Hired By CASA – for Sep. 16, 2010

Provincial farm safety co-ordinator Glen Blahey has retired after a 29-year career with the Manitoba government for a new job with the national Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). As CASA’s new agricultural health and safety specialist, Blahey will work from the Winnipeg-based CASA office on national farm safety initiatives. CASA is a Canada-wide network of