It’s the start of Canadian Agricultural Safety Week where issues surrounding farm safety are brought to the forefront.
Robin Anderson with The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association says, in recent times there has been a culture change where more people are talking about farm safety.
She said back in the old days, it was kind of a mark of honour if you were involved in a farm incident. Now, it’s a conversation about how do we prevent those incidents and how do we continue having these wonderful family farms that continue to the next generation.
Anderson says things like proper nutrition and sleep can be ignored when the pressure is on to get farm work done.
She encourages farmers to prioritize their health and safety, adding there are many times when farms no longer survive when something happens to the primary operator.
Anderson says Canadian agricultural injury reporting data shows most injuries happen around machinery.
