How to Use Tailgate Talks
Tailgate Talks are tools used to deliver short 10 – 15 minute hands-on awareness sessions to support your workplace training programs.
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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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Agricultural Safety Topic - Musculoskeletal Disorders Prevention
Identify potential MSD hazards in the workplace that can lead to injuries, including sprains and strains.
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Get your workers up to speed on health & safety with an orientation eCourse
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Agricultural Safety Topic - Orchard Ladder Safety
Know the dangers associated with riders on farm equipment and mowers.
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Are you a Greenhouse Grower? Get specially curated resources
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New Worker Orientation: Seasonal Agricultural Worker
This video was created to assist employers with the orientation of their seasonal agricultural workers. It should be used in connection with company/site specific information and resources.
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Agricultural Safety Topic - Harvesting Equipment with Cutterbars
Moving materials with a hand pallet truck may seem easy, but safe handling requires skill.
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Agricultural Safety Topic - Preventing Lifting & Overexertion Injuries
Lift properly to avoid injuries.
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Large Animal Handling Related Deaths Poster
Help raise awareness of the risk involved in handling large animals with a free infographic poster. Post it in your barn or other facility and help keep your workers and farm safe.
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Large Animal Handling Series: 1. Understanding Animal Characteristics Behaviours
Watch this short, practical video providing simple, easy to adopt tips for working safely around large animals. This video focuses on understanding animal characteristics behaviours.
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Large Animal Handling Series: 2. How to Approach Large Animals Safely
Watch this short, practical video providing simple, easy to adopt tips for working safely around large animals. This video focuses on approaching large animals safely.
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Large Animal Handling Series: 3. Personal Protective Equipment
Watch this short, practical video providing simple, easy to adopt tips for working safely around large animals. This video focuses on PPE.
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Large Animal Handling Series: 4. General Precautions for Large Animal Handling
Watch this short, practical video providing simple, easy to adopt tips for working safely around large animals. This video focuses on general precautions for large animal handling.
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Health & safety resources for your Spanish speaking workers
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Handling Large Animals Safely Fact Sheet
From cattle, to swine, to horses and sheep - learn how to handle large animals safely. Use this document to learn about facilities and equipment, animal behaviour, PPE and more.
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Safe Handling of Farm Animals Tailgate Talk
Use this Tailgate Talk script to help deliver short 10 – 15 minute hands-on awareness sessions about the safe handling of farm animals to support your workplace training programs.
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Operating machines safely: 4 obstacles and tips to overcome them
Understanding how people interact with machines is key to preventing both MSDs and acute injuries, says WSPS machine and robotics specialist Robert Vomiero.
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Hiring foreign workers? Here’s how to onboard them safely
Temporary foreign workers may be an ideal solution to your labour shortages. If so, Jay Remsik has suggestions on how to onboard, train and support these workers.
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Equipping Farmers for Mental Wellness: Preventing Violence and Harassment
Farms are not immune from workplace violence and harassment hazards, this can be devasting to our mental health. Being proactive can make a big difference in someone's life. Watch this video to lear
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Equipping Farmers for Mental Wellness: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health Issues
With busy season on farms we may easily overlook the signs someone is experiencing mental health challenges and may be reluctant to share these issues. Watch this video to learn more about the stigma
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Equipping Farmers for Mental Wellness: Having a Plan to Manage Stress
Stress can be very challenging and farming has many factors that contribute to this. Watch this video to learn how you can limit the potential for stress, create a plan and manage your mental health.
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Equipping Farmers for Mental Wellness: Achieving Work Life Balance
More people are working from home and stuggling with work life balance. Having this balance is an important contributor to our mental health. Watch this video for tips and information about how to s
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Sample Policy for Customers: Right to Disconnect
Bill 27: The Right to Disconnect, mandates that employers in Ontario with 25 or more employees must develop a written policy giving workers the right to disconnect at the end of their workday.
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