Once a coordinator attends a one and one-half day, in-person training session conducted by foundation staff; the work of running a Progressive Agriculture Safety Day® falls on the local coordinator. It is the responsibility of the coordinator to pull together local volunteers to help:  plan; secure donations; set-up; clean-up; prepare lunch; and serve as instructors, group leaders, safety officers, and photographers. The training sessions provide the basic structure for a Safety Day; but the local planning committee must decide:

• whether the Safety Day will be a community (open to anyone interested) or school (open to only certain schools or grades) event 
• location, date, and hours
• ages and number of participants
• how many and which farm safety and health topics to teach
• what resources to send home
• registration fee, if any
• whether to include parents at the event, etc.

Coordinators are encouraged to involve all area groups or individuals who are involved in farming or farm-related activities to help with the Safety Day. After an initial successful Safety Day, volunteers are usually anxious to help with a Safety Day the following year.

Running a Safety Day is a big responsibility for the local coordinators. But when they hear the children talk about what they learned at the end of the day, it's all worth it.