The Calgary Stampede and AltaLink are teaming up again this year for their second annual Farm Safety Day.

Kristina Barnes, with the Stampede, says rural students will get to learn all about how to handle some of the dangers on the farm and in rural Alberta.

"Certainly lots of things that you would see on farms and just in general in the rural area, so things that young people would come into contact with, whether that would be livestock handling, equipment safety, could potentially be working with electricity or even being around electricity in large farm equipment, distracted driving, first aid, we have a wide range of things that we touch on" she says.

After some tragic events in Alberta in the past, Barnes says, they also deal with grain handling safety.

"It's a a big issue and we have seen unfortunate things happen so we want to make sure we are arming our youth in our province to deal with those kinds of issues and certainly not get themselves into a space where they need  help," Barnes says.

Over 700 students took it in last year and she expects anywhere from 700 to a thousand this year and they're about half-way to that now but there's still room.

Barnes urges teachers to register their classes for the free May 16 event and says there are grants available to pay for busing students to and from the grounds.