About Farm Safety Centre
The Farm Safety Centre, promotes safe agricultural practices through the development and delivery of educational materials throughout rural Alberta.
Farm Safety Centre Description
In 1997 a cross section of agricultural stakeholders in Alberta met to discuss and determine which groups would benefit most from farm safety educational efforts. It was determined that the number one target group should be children. It was thought that mature farmers could be reached through their children. Also, as these same rural children would be the next generation of farmers and influencing their safety attitudes while they were young would impact their individual safety decisions as adults, it seemed a very good investment in the future of Alberta.
With these thoughts in mind the school based “Safety Smarts” program began in 1998.
The 2014-2015 school-year was Safety Smarts 17th successful year.