Children and youth need to be involved in conversations about farm safety —and that means being honest with them about the potential dangers on the farm.

“One decision changed my life”

A farm accident survivor on the need to keep farm kids safe

Bailey Kemery knows how quickly a farm accident can happen and change a life forever. It was April 1994, and Kemery, who was four years old, was playing on a parked tractor-driven rototiller that was still running on her family’s grain farm near Major, Sask. Her parents were standing not too far away. When the […] Read more

Farms offer children an increasingly unique living and learning experience but are still workplaces where appropriate supervision and boundaries are a must.

Data shows more needs to be done to keep kids safe on the farm

Kids FarmSafe Week, a new public awareness campaign, runs May 13-19

We can all agree that farm safety is more prominent now than a few decades ago. But while Canadian farms are becoming safer, hazards still exist, and it’s clear that there is still a long way to go with farm safety — particularly when it comes to children and youth. The latest Canadian Agricultural Injury […] Read more