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About Farm Safety Association

The Farm Safety Association (FSA) is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1973 and is a “designated entity” under the Workplace Safety & Insurance Act (WSIA). The Association vision is the elimination of all workplace injuries and illnesses in the provinces Agricultural Industrial Sector, as the industry’s primary source of Occupational Health and Safety education and awareness. As one of Ontario’s health and safety associations, primary funding is through employer’s premiums paid to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). Our members are firms which pay WSIB premiums as Agricultural employers which includes Agriculture, horticulture and landscaping.

What We Do

FSA supports industry and government in developing standards, procedures and regulations to improve health and safety for the Agriculture Industrial Sector. FSA offers a broad range of print, video and digital products and services including training and consultation. These include a newsletter (FARMSAFE), statistical information, and guideline reporting forms.

Ontario’s Health and Safety System.

The system includes three partners: the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), the Ministry of Labour ( MOL) and the Health and safety Associations (HSAs) that serve the 12 specific industrial sectors. FSA is the HSA for the Ontario Agricultural industry. All employers registered with the WSIB in a Agricultural rate group are members of FSA. For our members, most of our products and training are available at no charge or minimal cost recovery.

Safe workplaces not only mean better health and quality of life for workers, they also mean more profitable business and lower premiums for employers.

The FSA goal is:

• to help our companies build productive and effective workplace relationships so that the Internal Responsibility System in their workplace operates to its highest potential, and
• to act as a resource through our services and products which will enable member workplaces to improve their safety performance.