Safety Days for Children
Keeping Kids Safe Through Safety Days
Since 2002, CASA has partnered with the Progressive Agriculture Foundation to support farm safety education for Canadian youth through Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® programs.
Safety Days are hands-on, age-appropriate events that help children learn how to stay safe on the farm. Interactive stations cover topics such as sun safety, safety around farm machinery, rail safety and more.
Communities select station topics based on their own local safety and health needs. The Basic program is designed for children ages eight to 13, but Safety Days are for everyone and can be customized for other age groups.
Safety Day (Community-Based)
One-day, hands-on safety programs offering flexible, age-appropriate learning in community settings year-round.
Safety Day (School-Based)
One-day, in-school safety programs tailored to specific grades, schools, and lesson topics.
Safety Academy
Small-group programs that explore one or two safety topics through immersive, hands-on learning.
Safety Zone
Condensed, multi-station safety experiences delivered alongside community events for youth of all ages.
Progressive Agriculture Safety Day®
Canadian Safety Days by the Numbers
Since 2002, CASA-supported Safety Days have helped bring farm and rural safety education to communities across Canada. Each year, children, educators and volunteers come together to teach and learn about farm safety.
“A big thing for us when we started this was to really make it a hands-on approach to learning about safety versus textbook learning....One of the topics we cover is tractor safety, where the kids sit in a tractor and learn about the blind spots and how tractor operators can’t see everything around them. Them sitting in the tractor and seeing the blind spots themselves is something they’ll remember over us just talking to them. So, it’s really about making things hands-on and practical.”
Angela Vyn, Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® Coordinator
Become a PAF Coordinator
Lead the charge in ringing age-appropriate, hands-on safety and health education to youth in your local community
Buy or Borrow Teaching Kits
Are you looking for an interactive way to teach kids about agricultural safety? You’re in luck! CASA maintains an inventory of teaching kits that cover the following topics:
- Grain safety
- Helmet use
- Fire safety
- PTO safety
- Chemical safety
- Animal safety
- Hearing safety
There is no charge to borrow these kits. Simply cover shipping costs.*