NATIONAL – Canadian Agricultural Safety Week (CASW) is back this year, running until March 19, and the theme for 2016 is “Keeping Kids Safe”. A project of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA) and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, CASW is a yearly public-awareness campaign across the country that promotes safe farming, and both organizations have also launched a new three-year campaign called Be an AgSafe Family, according to the CASW website. Both initiatives aim to give family farms the tools to work safely: next year’s CASW will focus on adult family members, and the one for 2018 will be about senior citizens. “We believe that we can teach the love of agriculture to our children in a safe and healthy way,” CASA executive director Marcel Hacault said in a press release on March 1. “We are providing tools and safety advice [online] that can help make farms a safe place for children to grow up.” Events planned across Canada include an all-day CASW launch session in Vineland Station, Ont. on March 15, an adult information session on the same day in Wolfville, N.S. and a Ladies Farm Safety Evening in Balzac, Alta. on March 16. More information is available at http://www.agsafetyweek.ca.