Cultivating Safety: Safe Practices for Livestock Handling
With the changing of the season, the to-do list for Canadian farmers is long… but time is short. As the workload increases, cool temperatures and dwindling daylight create a persistent sense of urgency which can potentially lead to injury. Cultivating Safety Between the Rows is back with timely safety expertise, resources, and solutions to protect your farms greatest asset.
Hosts Kristin Hoffman, Consultant with Workplace Safety & Prevention Services (WSPS) and Gord Gilmour, of Glacier Farm media talk to the experts for advice on how to minimize risk and avoid accidents during fall harvest.
On this episode, safe practices for livestock handling. One in five farm injuries in Canada are livestock related, and many are related to cattle. Sheila James, long time cattle farmer and WSPS Consultant looks at animal behaviours and strategies to prevent injury.
In the second half of the show, farming is noisy business but how loud is too loud? There’s more than one reason farmers experience hearing loss. Sara Lovell, WSPS Occupational Hygienist highlights some of the top noise culprits and shares guidance on how to preserve and protect your hearing.
Tips, tools, training, and resources to plan for safety this season and every season.
What resources can farmers access?
- Agriculture and Horticulture Safety Centre
- Safety topics, including Safe Handling of Farm Animals
- Large Animal Handling Capsule Video Series
- Large Animal Handling Fact Sheet
- Protecting Against Noise
- Consultants
- e-Learning
- In-person training
- Commodity associations
- Temple Grandin
- Canadian Agricultural Safety Association
- Low Stress Cattle Handling
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Other farmers
- Networking
