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Farm Safety in Nova Scotia is carried out in cooperation
with the Nova Scotia Farm Health and Safety Committee.
This Committee is committed to improving the health
and safety of the farm clients and reducing the number
of farm accidents and injuries in Nova Scotia.
The Nova Scotia Farm Health and Safety Committee
is responsible to develop and endorse farm safety
polices, strategies and programs to the benefit of
the farming community
Farm Safety Publications online:
Objectives of the Nova Scotia Farm Health
& Safety Committee:
• Provide farm health & safety education
for farmers and farm families so as to improve the
health of the farming community;
• Prepare and review statistics with regards
to farm accidents and use this data to design farm
safety programs to reduce farm accidents;
• Provide guidance and support to county and
regional program activities supporting a relationship
to health and safety issues in the farm community
and to establish health and safety in the agricultural
community as a high priority within government;
• Facilitate the exchange of ideas in the promotion
of farm health and safety to establish health and
safety as a high priority in the agricultural community;
• Provide knowledgeable information of farm
safety in the province for media contacts;
• Promote farm health and safety best practices;
Representatives on the Nova Scotia Farm Health
& Safety Committee
The designated working groups represented on the
Nova Scotia Farm Health and Safety Committee are diverse
and broad and as such ensure a wide range of expertise
is available to the practice of Farm Safety in the
province. The committee is comprised of the representatives
of the following :
- Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (staff and
producers),
- Women’s Institute of Nova Scotia,
- Nova Scotia Agricultural College - Engineering Department,
- Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture, Resource
Stewardship Division,
- Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour,
- Farmers with Disabilities,
- Research, Dalhousie University
- Nova Scotia Department of Health,
- 4-H
Links to Other Farm Safety
Sites:
Contact
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