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Just how deadly is not knowing?

Make sure you know the emergency operating procedures for all of your machinery

By Shanyn Silinski March 17, 2016

Safety plans. Safety orientation. Training. Tail gate talks. SOPs (standard operating procedures). It is all so important in being a safe farm. A safe business. But how deadly is it really not knowing? In a word: very. Any number of things can go wrong, and quickly, in a farming operation. Especially “in season” when people […] Read more

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)

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Three young Alta. sisters lost to grain truck mishap

By Jennifer Blair, GFM Network News October 14, 2015

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 […] Read more

(File photo courtesy Canola Council of Canada)

Canola, Crops, Machinery

Three Alta. girls smothered in truckload of canola

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 14, 2015

Two 11-year-old girls and a 13-year-old girl have died after being smothered in a truckload of canola on a farm in western Alberta, according to RCMP and local media. Rocky Mountain House RCMP said late Tuesday they were called at about 6:15 that evening to a farm near Withrow, about 60 km west of Red […] Read more

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)

General, Machinery

Ag Safety Week urges farmers to “be the difference”

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News March 14, 2015

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.” […] Read more

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