Nova Scotia Tractor Safety Certification Program
Schedule | Who Should Attend? | Instructors | Course Details

Next offering NSAC Campus, Truro
May 5 - 6, 2012

NSAC is pleased to offer the Nova Scotia Tractor Safety Program for young tractor drivers.

This course will increase the awareness and test competency of Nova Scotia youth aged 14 - 16 with regards to safe operation and use of farm tractors and implements. Topics such as safety, highway regulations, pre-operation checks, safe starts and stops and connecting and hauling various implements will be covered.

At the end of the course, written and driving skills tests will be completed. Participants who obtain 70% on both the written and skills will receive a certificate of achievement from NSAC.

Please note: This course is not intended to teach tractor driving. All participants must have at least 10 hours of supervised tractor driving experience before taking this course.

New Course Dates
May 5 - 6, 2012

Who Should Attend?

Instructors

Scott Read
Scott is currently a Machinery Systems Technician with the Department of Engineering at NSAC. With over 10 years experience operating farm machinery, he also has extensive hands on knowledge of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, setting up automation controls, electronic components and design, welding and more. Scott currently prepares and teaches labs in welding and metal fabrication, agricultural machinery and horticultural engineering.

Stewart Yuill
Stewart is currently a Dairy Technician at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. He grew up on a dairy farm in Old Barns, just outside of Truro Nova Scotia. A member of the Colchester 4-H club for 12 years, Stewart was involved with dairy, goat, poultry and Tractor projects. Along with many trips to the Provincial 4-H Show, Stewart also had the opportunity to show at Royal Winter Fair in Toronto. Stewart’s extracurricular activities include minor hockey, provincial fastball and coaching and umpiring local Ball Teams.

Alden Knight
Alden is currently a lab instructor at NSAC and bring many years of experience in tractor maintenance and operation. Alden worked as shop foreman for a local farm machinery dealership in addition to having held several positions at NSAC. He has worked as farm worker at N.S.A.C. farm as well as been an agronomy research technician in field crops for Production Technology 

Chris Nelson
Chris is currently an Agricultural Technician with the Engineering Department at the NSAC.  He is tasked with running the wood lab and being a laboratory instructor on several courses including wood construction technology, surveying and horticultural engineering.   Prior to this, he was a research technician with the Organic Agricultural Centre of Canada where he setup and maintained research plots and was a farm equipment operator. He also helped organize the Farmedic course held at the college for first responders.  The course was geared towards teaching firefighters techniques to deal with farm related emergencies such as equipment entanglements, rollover’s and extractions from confined spaces.     

Course Details

Note: A minimum number of students is required for each course. The “decision deadline” is the date on which courses with insufficient enrollment will be cancelled.