Equine Guelph, a centre dedicated equine academia at the University of Guelph in Canada, has incorporated the Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW) Stop Think Act initiative into its popular online learning platforms.

Running between March 14 – 20, 2021, CASW incorporates many ways to help you promote farm safety in the community with its range of programs to help farm-related organizations, including the popular Stop Think Act initiative.

Gayle Ecker, Director, Equine Guelph comments:

Both the youth and adult offerings of Equine Guelph’s popular online short course, Horse Behaviour and Safety, feature many resources including a number of videos from the Stop Think Act program. They build awareness of the dangers that exist on horse farms both around equipment and the horses themselves. Videos include such topics as ATV’s, electrical safety, barn fire prevention, safety around machinery, when friends visit the farm and more.

EquiMania! introduced a Stop Think Act hopscotch game to the award-winning exhibit in 2017 which really encouraged kids to jump on making good choices when it comes to safety around horses and safety on the farm. The older youth showed they were on board with the important safety messaging, by snapping up the Stop Think Act photo frame – a cool way to spread the word amongst friends on social media. The fun does not stop in the EquiMania! booth. A Stop Think Act – Safety Pledge Certificate can be earned at EquiMania! online so check out the interactive games at EquiMania.ca

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