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New Canadian Agricultural Partnership (CAP) Program: Agri-Food Workplace Protection Program-Producers

This cost-share program was anounced May 14th  to help better farmers better protect employees and ensure the continued supply of healthy food products during the COVID-19 outbreak. The official program announcement can be found here.

This program has two categories:

Occupational Health and Safety Measures

  • To assist with producers implementing new health and safety measures and site/ equipment modifications related to COVID-19
  • Eligible activities:
    • Modifications within an agricultural operation to ensure appropriate safety with regards to social distancing needs (e.g., physical barriers)
    • Acquiring personal protective equipment and other approved safety supplies for use throughout an agricultural operation and on-farm housing for workers
    • Cleaning and disinfection throughout an agricultural operation and on-farm housing for workers

Enhancing Healthy Workforce Access and Accommodation

  • For projects to address workforce access and accommodations as a result of an on-farm outbreak of COVID-19
  • Eligible activity:
    • Activities to support worker accommodations, work-site mobility and transportation with new arrangements that are necessary to address a new and immediate health and safety issue that directly responds to an on-farm COVID-19 outbreak

This a 70 percent  cost-share, up to a maximum of $7500 per project. A limit of one project per eligible business or farm property farm property can be funded under the Agri-Food Workplace Protection Program for Producers.

Complete applications that meet eligibility criteria will be considered on a continuous basis while funding is available.

For more information on the program, including application procedures and elgible expenses see the Agri-Food Workplace Protection- Producers program page.

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