Encouraging those on farms to
STOP • THINK • ACT
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ÒIn collaboration with the Esso
commercial fuel resellers of Imperial
Oil, WSPS and its network of rural
volunteers are helping farmers,
agriculture workers and farm families keep safe
through a program called Stop Think Act (STA).
As a component of Imperial's own well-established
safety program, STA recognizes that behavioural
safety is key to creating a safety culture. It is a
simple, yet powerful behaviour-based safety program
that encourages people to consider the task at hand
and ask themselves how their own actions could
contribute to a safe and productive outcome. Using a
self-questioning methodology, the program advises
people to think carefully about how they are about
to perform a task and stop if it can't be done safely.
WSPS rural volunteers are being trained as Stop
Think Act ambassadors on an ongoing basis, in
partnership with Imperial. In the six months since
the initial training, the Stop Think Act message has
been shared with almost 4,000 farmers, and plans
are in place to reach another 5,000 in 2017. "I am
a farmer myself, with a family I want to keep safe,"
says Anne Anger, Chair of the WSPS Rural Volunteer
Agriculture Group and Stop Think Act Ambassador.
"In my family, it started around the dinner table,
talking about the program. It materialized into proof
a few weeks later, when my 17-year-old son —a future
farmer—told me he thought about our conversation
and made a different, safer choice. Wow!"
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