This is the first-ever BeGrainSafe Week, which is an extension of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association’s BeGrainSafe Program.
This program works to raise awareness of the dangers associated with grain.
Robert Gobeil, Agriculture Safety and Health Specialist says the BeGrainSafe Program started in 2015.
“Due to a spike in grain entrapment fatalities that year, CASA decided to start our BeGrainSafe program to promote awareness and prevention of these types of fatalities and injuries in the ag sector.”
Gobeil says they offer grain entrapment training to firefighters, which has been taken by nearly 650 firefighters.
“We’ve even had a success story of a victim being saved by someone who’s taken our training.”
More information about the program, and how to register can be found here.
