Students from Donalda and Botha schools joined their counterparts at Erskine School on Tuesday, May 19 to take part in several different interactive lectures in the gymnasium about safety.
Hosted by Agriculture for Life, the nearly 250 students from Kindergarten to Grade 9 learned about farm and rural safety, including equipment safety, water safety, electrical safety and off-road vehicle safety, to name a few of the several displays.
A total of eight stations were set up for students to rotate through, where volunteers from various companies talked about safety and demonstrated ways to stay safe.
ATCO Electric was one of the companies with a station, and had a model set up. In the model, people were doing several unsafe activities, such as standing inside and electrical transfer station, climbing a utility pole, messing around with live wires, or just not being cautious.
When the little models were adjusted to touch the "live" wires, sparks flew, the set crackled and sizzled loudly, and LED lights activated to show just how dangerous electricity could be.
While the set didn't have enough electricity to actually harm a person, the demonstrator at the school zapped himself good a few times, he said.
Other stations had safety equipment like life preservers and first aid kits, helmets and shin pads, and gloves, while other stations had interactive activities like circling dangers on an erasable plastic image.