Some safety days to start this fall

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Published: August 5, 2021

The Canadian Agricultural Safety Association has a variety of safety training materials for kids.

A nationwide event that has helped hundreds of thousands of kids learn how to say safe while working and playing on the farm won’t be fully back in action until next year. 

Most Farm Safety Days — there are usually 75 to 90 in a normal year — have been cancelled this year, said Robin Anderson of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. 

But a few will be held this fall, she said. 

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“We let those (local) co-ordinators make those calls on their own for their own community, their own province,” said Anderson 

However online safety training materials for kids can be found at casa-acsa.ca.

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