MOSSBANK — Cade Sprackman Safety Day came to Mossbank on Wednesday, May 28.
Cade Sprackman grew up in Hudson Bay with his sister, two brothers and parents. On Jan. 27, 2015, after recently graduating high school and moving to Saskatoon for a job, Cade was involved in a preventable workplace incident that took his life. He was only 18.
The Cade Sprackman Safety Day sees community representatives guide students through an Amazing Safety Quest. This three-hour event focused on the development of early safety skills relevant to Saskatchewan workplaces and environments.
Mossbank Grade 9 to 12 students will complete Saskatchewan Safety Council - Career Safety Education — a series of free online workplace safety programs that help establish a foundation of knowledge for any new worker by increasing participants' awareness of hazards and providing baseline understanding of how to manage risks present in a broad variety of industries. For details visit https://www.sasksafety.org/career-safety-education.html.
Involved in the day’s activities were Brad Young - 3M; Stephen Spock - Saskatchewan Construction Safety Association; Cam Hutchinson - Hutch Ambulance; Vipin Chhabra and Jiju Joy - WorkSafe Saskatchewan.
Weyerhauser in Hudson Bay is a champion-level sponsor of the Saskatchewan Safety Council supporting efforts to expand this initiative throughout the province of Saskatchewan. If interested in donating to support similar events, please contact Saskatchewan Safety Council at www.sasksafety.org.
Safe & Healthy Communities, a charitable organization, sponsored this event along with lunch for all participants. Their mission “Striving to make Assiniboia and areas the safest places to live, learn, work and play.” For more details please visit www.safehealthycommunities.com.
Brett Tiffen, Mossbank school principal, introducing the event followed by Barb Compton, facilitator with Safe & Healthy Communities, giving an introductory talk in conjunction with Renee Clermont, president of Safe & Healthy Communities.
Once the students were split into small groups and given their passports, they were sent to the first of four stations which they rotated around until they had finished their quest and answered questions.
The stops in the quest included Ear and Eye Protection, AED and First Aid, PPE and Fall Protection and finally Hazard Assessment. The demonstration for protecting one’s eyes included a nail gun shooting into an enclosed space towards a pair of safety glasses at 200 feet per second. AED and first aid shared a demonstration of the defibrillator. Protective equipment showed the students how to wear a harness, followed by suspending each one just off the floor. Assessing hazardous situations showed a PowerPoint presentation with a spinning wheel where each student answered their spin response. The safety quest ended with draws for prizes and a pizza lunch.
