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Dan Mazier, KAP president.
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Feds, province invest $432,000 towards farm safety education and training

Keystone Agricultural Producers will administer the new program. 
The hope is for sweeping change in attitudes towards safety, KAP president says

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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) will receive a major cash injection of $432,000 over the next two years to establish a broad-reaching and extensive new farm safety program. The funds announced by both provincial and federal ag ministers last week will flow through Growing Forward 2 and used to provide practical, on-farm expertise, resources and training
This isn’t an exact replica but an example of the kinds of mobile units already in use in the U.S. offering farmers farm safety education on the dangers of grain entrapment.
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Grower groups kick in cash for grain safety

Funds will help launch a mobile unit for farm safety education at farm shows and offering training for first responders

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A large cash contribution is going to help the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) warn farmers and their families about the dangers of working in and around stored grain facilities. Four grower organizations including the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA), Alberta Pulse Growers (APG), Alberta Wheat Commission (AWC), and Prairie Oat Growers Association (POGA) have
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Editorial: Safety first

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A few years ago I had what I now ruefully refer to as a series of unfortunate events. It began innocently enough with a phone call one Saturday morning from a friend, wondering if I could help him move a couch. An hour or so later, on a frosty March morning, we were wrestling it
Five surgeons quit Bailey Kemery’s life-saving surgery because the injuries were so severe they thought her death was a foregone conclusion.
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Farm accident survivor still drawn to the farm

Farm Safety: Her heart stopped twice on the way to hospital, multiple surgeons quit surgery assuming she wouldn’t survive

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Bailey Kemery was four years old, growing up on her family’s farm in Major, Sask., when her life changed forever. On April 20, 1994, she and her brother were playing on a tractor-driven rotary tiller parked, but running, not far from where her parents were standing in the yard. “The rototiller shook itself into gear,
Grain bins are one of the most dangerous spots on any farm.
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Farmer urges others to get beyond ‘won’t happen to me’ mentality

Farm accidents aren’t treated like other industrial accidents, which contributes to a lack of action on the issue

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Randy Froese never thought it would happen to him. But on August 17, 2010, he very nearly became another grim farm death statistic. “It was a miracle,” he said. “I praise the Lord every day that it happened the way it did… it was so close.” That fateful day started much like any other, as
Danny Mann, professor and head of the department of biosystems engineering at University of Manitoba stands on the mock-up staircase built at the university so researchers could compare access paths on farm equipment, including the steps, angles and spacing and how different designs impacted knee joints of users.
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Safety by design

Farmer feedback builds safer equipment

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A guy walks into a tool department with his thumb bandaged, complaining about his new hammer. It keeps hitting two inches to the left. That’s actually not a joke. As any carpenter will tell you, you can hammer all day with a good hammer that’s the right fit for your hand, but if you use
The farm safety area has been relocated to the Pioneer Lounge at the top of the ramp in the Keystone Centre.
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Farm Safety Area gets expanded quarters

Visitors can enter contest to win safety items

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Agriculture is one of the top three most hazardous industries in which to work. According to the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association, while 85 per cent of Canadian producers believe safety is a priority on their farm, less than 10 per cent currently have a safety plan on their farm or ranch. “Manitoba Ag Days takes
Three-year-old Ally South of Stavely holds an anti-Bill 6 sign prior to a meeting in Okotoks December 2, 2015 between farmers and ranchers and provincial Labour Minister Lori Sigurdson and Agriculture Minister Oneil Carlier. Alberta’s government will retool a bill that would overhaul workplace standards on farms in Canada’s biggest cattle-producing province, its agriculture minister said, after protests by farmers and ranchers.
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Politics and farm safety in Alberta

In no other industry would such a poor safety record be allowed stand unchallenged

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My grandfather died in a farming accident. A great-aunt lost an arm in an auger. A boy I rode the school bus with stopped a church service one autumn to tell everyone his brother had just been crushed to death in a combine. In the last few months, four children have died in farming mishaps
4-H Canada CEO Shannon Benner announces $600,000 in funding for scholarship and farm safety programs, in partnership with CN. (Lisa Guenther photo)
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Railway funds to deliver safety, leadership programs

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4-H Canada is set to launch a new youth leadership program, along with a farm safety fund, thanks to a $600,000 contribution from Canadian National Railway (CN). Executives at 4-H and CN unveiled the 4-H Canada Leadership Excellence Awards of Distinction (LEAD) at Canadian Western Agribition on Wednesday morning. Each year LEAD will award four
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Back to Ag program available

Financial support is available to injured farmers

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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

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