Safety in the Media 2

Crappy photo of the letter in the paper
Crappy photo of the letter in the paper

Remember the photo of the kid wandering through the farm machinery?
Well, my colleagues and I wrote a letter to the editor, as did our counterparts at the University of Alberta. You can see it at the Western Producer online or see it in context in the pdf on pages 12-13. Researcher advocacy, woot woot!

You can learn more about the media’s role and responsibility in farm safety from the Marshfield Clinic’s media guidelines.