Lloyd Evans Memorial Award

Lloyd Evans is remembered for many significant contributions to agriculture, with a legacy defined by leadership and unwavering dedication to farm safety. Throughout his life, Lloyd held a number of influential roles, including President of the Annapolis County Federation of Agriculture, the Nova Scotia Grain Commission, Horticulture Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture (NSFA) and the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA). However, some of his most notable contributions were related to advancing farm safety.

As a true safety champion, Lloyd was a driving force behind key initiatives that continue to safeguard farm families and workers across Nova Scotia today. He chaired the NSFA Safety Committee, served on the National Farm Safety organization for nine years, and was an executive of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association. Not only that, but Lloyd was also instrumental in the establishment of Farm Safety Nova Scotia (FSNS) and the Farm Safety Handbook. In recognition of Lloyd’s dedication to agriculture in general and farm safety in particular, the Lloyd Evans Memorial Award was created. Going forward, the award will be presented to a youth who has shown interest and taken initiative to promote safety awareness, influence their peers, promote best practices and help build a strong safety culture in agriculture—today and for the future. It is intended to recognize, motivate and create future safety leaders in the agriculture industry – just as Lloyd was.

To inspire, recognize and motivate youth who demonstrate creativity, leadership, and initiative in promoting farm safety awareness.

To be considered for the award, the contestants must:

• Be between 9 and 21years old

• Be residents Nova Scotia.

• Be involved in agriculture (e.g., family farm, 4-H club, school agriculture program, or community activity).

Create your own original video on farm safety content! Your video should feature examples of how to be safe on the farm, raise awareness of safe best practices, or just record yourself giving a safety talk on how to prevent/ avoid common hazards on the farm. Remember to have fun and be creative!

• To participate in the contest, entrants or the parents or guardians of entrants (under 18 years of age), as well as all persons included in the video (participants), must complete a consent form

• Video submissions must be the original work of the contest entrant and must not infringe upon or violate any laws or any third-party rights, including, but not limited to, copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights and must not lead to any cause of action including libel, defamation, privacy violation, contract breach or tort. All videos are intended for the general public. Therefore, personal, private information should not be included in video submissions. Farm Safety Nova Scotia will not accept videos that are offensive to an individual or organization, rude in tone, abusive, unintelligible or irrelevant to farm safety.

• Video submissions must be no longer than 2 minutes in length

• Video submissions can made through the contest entry form.

• It is the sole responsibility of the contestant to ensure that their contest submission is received by Farm Safety Nova Scotia before the submission deadline.

Click here for the contest entry form! \

For all other information pertaining to the award and competition such as: evaluation criteria, scoring rubric, judging and more. Click here.