Anyone who has ever worked with children has likely wondered at times if those children are listening and learning anything. One rural community knows for sure that their kids are listening and learning. On an annual basis, volunteers come together in the Humboldt, SK region to talk to school-aged kids about safety. The Progressive Agriculture Safety Days […] Read more
Rural community promotes safety
Think about getting hitched — safely!
Misplaced the operator manual to your tried-and-true old tractor? Wondering how to safely tow an older implement with your new high-speed tractor? You’ll find the answers to these and other farm equipment hitching questions in a new guidebook, Safe Implement Hitching. Jim Wassermann, an engineer with the Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) in Saskatchewan, is […] Read more
Can You Afford To Be Injured?
If your business runs on a profit margin of five per cent, and if the total uninsured costs were $5,000, then your business will have to generate $100,000 in sales to pay for this incident. The bottom line for any business is profitability. An important part of maximizing profits is minimizing losses — and that […] Read more
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