COVID-19 Resources for Agriculture
COVID-19 is creating unique challenges for agricultural operations. WSPS remains focused on providing critical prevention and safety services during this time.
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Agriculture & Horticulture
Learn best practices and more from our specially curated health and safety resources for the agriculture sector.
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FREE Agri-food Business Safety Connection Webinar Series
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10 ways to help your employees avoid cold stress
Use these tips from WSPS Consultant Kristin Hoffman to implement a cold stress prevention program, or gauge the effectiveness of what you already have in place.
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Mental Health: Self-Help Strategies that Work Day In and Day Out
The good news is that mental health is something that is now being discussed more and more freely and being recognized as a legitimate workplace hazard in all walks of life including farming.
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For Everything There is a Season
For most farms, it’s the time when equipment, which has been operating relentlessly around the clock without preventative maintenance, can be serviced.
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A Game Plan for Emergencies
At the beginning of the pandemic not many of us could project we’d be approaching our third year of dealing with it.
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Ask the Expert Protecting Your Team from Asphyxiating Gases
As two senior health and safety consultants at WSPS, Sheila and Jason Killoran know a thing or two about the devastating effect of gasses on farm operations.
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Let's Talk about Tractor Safety
Did you know that tractor incidents resulting in injuries and fatalities are one of the biggest risks on farms? Learn more and get the tools you need to help prevent tractor incidents that can impact
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COVID-19 and Workplace Safety
Through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership (the Partnership), the federal and provincial governments have launched the Agri-food Workplace Protection Program to help agriculture producers
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Being a Driving Force for Safety on Your Tractor
While every harvest season is important to Ontario farmers, 2021 stands apart. The challenges associated with COVID 19 have been felt every step of the way.
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Farmer's Lung: The Risks and How to Reduce Them
Farmers Lung is an allergic disease caused by inhaling allergy-causing dust found in some agricultural operations.
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Ask the Expert: COVID Takeaways worth Keeping
WSPS Strategic Advisor Dean Anderson believes there is much to be learned from our experiences dealing with COVID.
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A Safe Place to Talk About Mental Health
In workplace safety, when we hear the term 'safe place' it's often assumed that hazards have been dealt with and a safe environment has been created.
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Greenhouse Risk Assessment Project
The Greenhouse Risk Assessment Project is a multi-year initiative undertaken by the MLTSD in coordination with WSPS and greenhouse industry stakeholders.
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Farm Safety & Children
The injury and fatality statistics regarding children who live on or near farms are sobering. Educate them and help keep them safe.
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Wondering how to keep safe during the pandemic? Get the tools you need. Visit our COVID-19 HUB
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Farm Safety: Rural Road Safety
Traffic accidents can occur in an instant. Recognize some of the challenges faced by both slow moving vehicle operators and other road users and learn how both can better share the road safely with ot
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Farms Safety Legislation - OH&S Questions & Answers
General Application
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Farms Safety Legislation - OH&S Tools
Following are tools to assist with the Ontario Health & Safety Act.
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Stop Think Act Program - Farm Safe, Not Lucky
WSPS and its network of rural volunteers are helping farmers, agriculture workers and farm families keep safe through a program called Stop Think Act (STA).
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Stop Think Act - Checklist for Working Alone
Please take a moment to stop and ask yourself if you’re ready to work alone. Take time to correct any hazards. Stop it if it can’t be done safely.
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Health & safety resources for your Spanish speaking workers
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Working alone is a fact of life in farming with many tasks requiring that farmers work unsupervised, often for hours at a time.
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