Farm Safety Links

General Farm Safety

• It’s Still Dangerous Out There
  Outlines a few areas, which could possibly be areas of high risk on the farm.
• Canadian Agricultural Safety Association
  The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association website gives you insight into CASP (The Canadian Agriculture Safety Program) as well as many other safety concerns.
• General Injury Prevention
  The website for the Alberta Center For Injury Control and Research includes a wealth of information dealing with injury prevention.
• National Safety Council
  The National Safety Council home page provides a direct link addressing agriculture safety.
• Farm Safety
  This site, by Saskatchewan Labour, offers power point presentations on tractor rollovers and run-overs, clothing and protective equipment for agricultural chemical application and dealing with rural stress.
• Farmedic
  Farm rescue training for rural fire, rescue, and EMS personnel.
• SMARTRISK Foundation
  Encouraging Canadians to adopt smart risk behavior.
• The Farm & Health Safety Checklist
  The farm health and safety checklist website offers general information on farm health and safety, and a farm health and safety checklist as well as an interpretation guide.
• Farm Safety
  This website includes the plain facts about farm safety.
• Senior Farmers At Risk On The Farm
  Outlines and emphasizes the increased risk among older farmers and ranchers.
• National Ag Safety Database
  Various farm safety resources.
• British Columbia Farm and Ranch Safety and Health Association
  Various British Columbia Farm information
• Ohio State University Agricultural Safety
  Links and info on farm safety
  

• High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety
  In this website, there is information on HI-CAHS and how this organization plans to reduce and ideally eliminate accidents, injuries, diseases and deaths resulting from agricultural operations through education intervention and research.
• Atlantic Canada Farm Safety
  This site offers a wide range of farm safety information including: farm safety news, farmers as safety officers, taking care of your health, pesticide safety, farm safety school stop, kid’s safety on the farm, farm health and safety resources, links to other farm safety websites, as well as contact information.
• Health Canada: Farm Business Health Model
  A guide to developing and implementing the workplace health system for farm businesses
• National Farm Medicine Centre
  Provides high quality research addressing human health and safety associated with agriculture work and rural life.
• Canadian Federation of Agriculture
  The farm safety gateway includes links to statistics, kids, seniors, prevention and emergency information. If you come across any questions there is also a Q & A link.
• Saskatchewan Rural Health Extension Program
  Provides information about the program, their publications, presentations, scholarships, services, FAQ’s, and related links, as well as allows for you to test yourself in the area of safety.
• North Dakota Farm Bureau
  A site in which you are able to order the Nationally Acclaimed Safety Program from North Dakota Farm Bureau, "Always Be Careful on the Farm (ABC)."
• UC Agricultural Health and Safety Center at Davis
  Includes news and events, current research projects, publications.
• Farm Safety Association - Horticultural, Agricultural Safety
  The farm safety association website provides up-to-date health and safety information to Ontario’s agriculture, horticulture and landscaping industries.
• National Farm Safety and Health Week
  This website offers wide-ranging information on farm safety, including articles, fact sheets, tips, resources, and links.
• Farm Safety Committee in Nova Scotia
  Provides a risk management worksheet as well as contact information for the Farm Safety Committee
• Work Safe Alberta
  This website provides information and support on healthy and safe workplaces

• Children & Agriculture Home Page
  This site provides links to other websites covering a wide range of farm safety issues, including the North American Guidelines for Children’s Agricultural Tasks.
• Farm Safety For Children: Emergency Action on the Farm - What Parents and Grandparents Can Teach Children
  This site includes information on safety around grain, silage, manure, machinery, and livestock. It even includes how to successfully perform CPR on an injured victim.
  

• National Childrens' Centre for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
  Designed to improve the health and safety of children exposed to hazards linked with agricultural work and rural environments.  This site also includes guidelines for children's agricultural tasks.
• North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks
  A guiding principle developed to help parents assign chores on the farm with age appropriate tasks.
• Is Your Child Protected From Injury on the Farm?
  Facts of the frequency of farm accidents, insight as to why they happen and information on how age appropriate activities can reduce the risk of accidents.

• Farm Safety 4-Just Kids
  The Farm Safety 4 Just Kids website includes chapters, program services, a catalog, sponsors, fun 4 kids, memberships, links, information on how you can donate to the program, planned giving, online press room, and a calendar of events.

• Farm Safety Day Camps
  Provides information on farm safety day camps and answers questions such as why farm kids are at risk. Can all farm jobs be made kid-safe? How do safety day camps work? And how do I plan a safety day camp?
• Lesson Plan #1Safety - It's an Attitude: Promoting Farm and Ranch Safety
  A series of agricultural safety lesson plans by the National Safety Council, designed to heighten public knowledge. Each lesson includes an introduction, purpose, target audience, objectives, detailed plan, and resource guide.
• Lesson Plan #2 Child Safety on the Farm
  A wonderful lesson plan by the National Safety Council, provided for teachers or parents in order to encourage the importance of child safety on the farm.

• Alberta Rural Physician Action Plan
  403-208-5402 Office 403-208-6170 fax 403-813-4153 cell
  220 Edgebrook Court NW, Calgary, Alberta Canada T3A 5A3
• Utilization of Chemical Protective Equipment Among Farmers
  This research includes statistics on the utilization of chemical protective equipment among farmers as well as emphasizing its importance.
• Sun and Heat Exposure
  Over exposure of heat and UV light can cause severe health problems. This website provides helpful hints that will keep you safe from the harmful effects of the sun.

• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - Agriculture
• Rollover-Protective-Structure--ROPS
  How to avoid tractor rollovers as well as what you should know about rollover-protective-structures and why they are important.
• Interactive Farm Safety Website
  Includes hand signals for communicating with the operator as well as how to keep safe while working with tractors.
• Harvest Equipment
  This site includes suggestions on preventing injuries while operating harvesting equipment through effective safety management.

• Preventing Injuries and Deaths From Skid Steer Loaders
  Outlines safe operating procedures, which should be implemented when working with steer loaders.
• PTO Safety
  Power Take Off’s are potential safety hazards if not used correctly. This website gives a few helpful hints on how to keep you and your loved ones safe when operating a PTO.

• Hand Tools
  Hand tools can be dangerous if used improperly. This website includes basic information on how to prevent injury while using hand tools.
• Mowing Safety
  This website provides a useful safety guide that explains how to minimize risk while operating a lawn mower.

• ATV Safety
  Includes ATV inspection questions that should be answered prior to turning on the engine, as well as what safety precautions should be taken to minimize injuries while driving an ATV.

• Farm Shop Safety
  How to make your farm shop a part of a farm safety solution, not a problem.

• Falls from Machinery
  Outlines the severity of the topic as well as suggests basic practices that should be adopted in order to prevent falls from machinery.
• Falls on the Farmstead
  Provides information on how to avoid injuries due to falls.

• Grain Bins
  Provides information on how to keep the areas in and around the grain bins safe from injuries.
• Safe Grain and Silage Handling
  An online safe grain and silage-handling booklet covering such areas as harvesting, transportation, storage, conveying, and processing.

• Farm Electrical Safety
  How to keep your farm free from potential injuries/deaths caused by electricity.
• Electrical Fires: Prevention and Extinguishing
  Electricity can be a potential fire source. Electrical hazards and solutions are outlined on this site.
• Electrical Hazards on the Farm
  Since the 1930's, electrical service has been brought to every rural area of the state and has increased the productivity of the farmer, however, if it is used improperly it can be very dangerous.
• Electrocution Hazards on the Farm
  The auger contacts overhead power lines without warning and two workers are electrocuted. It was too late to do anything.
• Electrical Safety in Agriculture
  The flow of electrons from one atom to another in any material is what we call electricity, or electric current.
• Electrical Safety on the Farm
  Electricity is a crucial source of energy on farms as is electrical safety.

• Horse Safety: Do’s and Don’ts
• Basic Horse Safety Manual.
• Safety with Animals
  This site provides five reminders to think about when working with any species of animal.
• Livestock Handling
  Provides helpful hints on how to keep everyone around you safe when handling livestock.
• Safety with Animals
  A website that is focused solely on preventing animal related accidents on the farm.
• Approaching, Catching, and Haltering Horses Safely
  An informative site about safety in handling horses.

• Manure-Storage-Entering-Procedures
  This site tells you how to take proper safety precautions when entering manure storage and how important this can be.
• Silo Gas
  This site describes how silo gas is formed, it’s dangers, and how to prevent injuries and death.
• Reducing the Fatality Risks of Livestock Manure Storage
  Outlines research on formation of manure gases and control and management methods to decrease the deaths caused by toxic manure gases.
• Manure Gas
  Outlines the harmful gases emitted from manures as well as suggest a few precautionary techniques in which will minimize injury from toxic manure gases.

• Pesticide Safety
  How toxic the pesticide is, does not directly relate to the danger implicated while treating with pesticides. This site informs you of the less commonly known dangers.
• Chemicals
  This fact sheet provides helpful hints on how to reduce potential exposure to harmful chemicals.
• Anhydrous Ammonia
  This site outlines the risks involved in using anhydrous ammonia as well as what precautions should be taken in order to minimize such risks.

• Canadian Agriculture Injury Surveillance Program
• Canadian Children’s Safety on the Farm
  An article from Child and Family Canada, outlining the issue of child safety on farms. Also contains a Child Safety Checklist.