Health & Safety
Farm Stress
Farming is a stressful business. If you need to talk, please call Toll Free: 1-800-667-4442. 24 hours per day. Seven days per week. Free and Confidential. There is no call display.
Farm Stress Resources
- Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan (APAS) – Mental Health Resources Library
- Farm Business Management: Feeling Stressed?
- Farm Stress Line – Mobile Crisis Units
Health & Safety
Thousands of Saskatchewan residents are employed directly in the production of pork. Workers can be exposed to safety and health risks unique to the hog barn environment. These risks include in-barn air quality, animal handling, noise levels, chemical usage, gases and dust produced from manure handling and the potential for zoonotic disease transmission from pigs to humans.
Risks can be minimized and/or eliminated by adhering to recommended workplace safety regulations and following guidelines and training procedures in place at your place of employment. Protection of employees' health and safety is critical to successful pork production. Awareness is key to reducing risk and injury on the job.
Farm Safety Resources:
- Workplace Safety Manual for the Saskatchewan Pork Industry
- WorkSafe Saskatchewan
- Worker’s Compensation Board Saskatchewan
- Farm Safety Program
- Farm Safety Resources
- Employment Standards Regulation
- Agricultural Health and Safety Network
- Government of Saskatchewan - Farm Safety Program
- Saskatchewan Safety Council - Farm Safety
- Injury Prevention Partners Saskatchewan
- Agricultural Health and Safety Network