Agriculture SHSM Sector
Overview:
The SHSM – Agriculture enables students to build a foundation of sector-focused knowledge and skills before graduating and entering apprenticeship training, college, university, or an entry-level position in the workplace. Where local circumstances allow, boards may elect to offer one or more variants of the SHSM in a given sector, each with a particular area of focus. This SHSM may be designed to have a particular focus – for example, on agricultural equipment or animal and crop science. This focus is achieved through the selection of the four major credits in the bundle.
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Courses:
Compulsory:
- CPR – C with AED
- Standard First Aid
- WHMIS – generic (i.e., not site-specific) instruction
Electives:
- Advanced training in a technique (e.g., specific equipment maintenance, tilling, irrigation)
- Livestock production
- Compass/map/global positioning system (GPS)
- Sector-specific software 1
- Animal first aid
- Nutrient management
- Equipment operation safety
- Sector-specific vehicle operation and safety approaches to healing
- Principles of drainage
- Fire safety and fire extinguisher
- Use small engine maintenance
- Chainsaw safety
- Safe lifting
- Fundamentals of the combine – level 1
- Sustainable resource management planning
- Customer service
- Cector-specific sustainability practices
- Hazardous atmospheres and confined spaces
- Transgenic plant identification
- Fall protection
- Seed saving herbicide and pesticide
- Weed and pest identification and management
- First aid/CPR/AED awareness
- Soil classification and testing
- Infection control
- Grain grading
- Theory of combine settings and adjustments – level 2
- Ladder safety training
- Health and safety – basic
- Vehicle lift safety
- Large animal handling; hydraulics – basic
- Working at Heights
- Livestock medicine
- Introduction to pest management
- Advanced training in a technology, land and forest survey skills
- Lockout/tagging
- Land and forest survey skills
- Anti-oppression and allyship training
- Portfolio development
- Leadership skills
- Basic electrical safety
- Project management
Flashpoint Certification
- Customer Service
- Leadership
- Portfolio Development
- Project Management
- CPR Level C/AED
- Standard First Aid
- WHMIS