A $10,000 donation from CBH's Harvest Mass Management Scheme (HMMS) is helping bring safety and productivity to growers.
Farmsafe WA was one of eight recipients of the HMMS donations as a part of the initiative developed by CBH and Main Roads WA.
Farmsafe WA project director Maree Gooch said the recognition was a testament to the message of safety on farms reaching and being important to the rural community.
"Farm safety may not be a very sexy subject, but it is very important," she said.
Ms Gooch said the productivity improvements growers could gain through small changes in practices could not be ignored.
"Improvements in safety can translate into more profitability," she said.
"Research shows that businesses with safety systems in place are 38 per cent more productive than those without."
She said just a 1pc increase in productivity on a property could increase profit by 10pc.
Extending this across an entire industry meeting safety requirements could boost the State economy by about $40 million.
The HMMS funding, which is raised through the sale of forfeited grain on overloaded trucks, will help Farmsafe WA continue to educate WA growers on the safety requirements on farm.
Ms Gooch, a finalist in the 2016 WA Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation (RIRDC) Rural Woman of the Year awards, is driving efforts to find ways for farmers to address and adopt safety more easily.
Farmsafe WA chairman Mike Norton welcomed the "wonderful" recognition and donation from CBH and said the reinvigorated Farmsafe WA board would be working to build new and strategic alliance partners.
"We need the industry on board supporting us so that we can provide the solutions they are looking for," he said.
This season, 495 tonnes of grain was forfeited and $155,000 was raised which is the second largest donation amount since HMMS began.
CBH chairman Wally Newman credits the scheme's capability in providing further support to the WA grain growing regions.
"The HMMS has been the most effective deterrent to overloading in the history of road transport in WA, while giving back to rural communities at the same time," he said.
CBH growers and employees chose the recipients this year to be Ronald McDonald House, St John Ambulance, Camp Kulin, Red Cross, Farmsafe Alliance WA, the Paraplegic Benefit Fund, the Association of Volunteer Bush Fire Brigades of WA and Breast Cancer Care WA.
St John Ambulance community first responder manager Sally Simmonds said the funds would enable St John to install 15 automated external defibrillators (AED) and alarmed cabinets at regional grain growing schools.
"In the event of a sudden cardiac arrest, time is of the essence," she said.
"For every minute that the victim is not defibrillated they lose a 10 per cent chance of life, so after 10 minutes, the chances of recovery are virtually nil.
"Last year a student's life was saved at Bunbury Catholic College with the use of an AED located on campus.
"It is hoped that they are never needed but should they be, the presence of an AED can make a difference between life and death for someone.
"Having these installed in our schools in regional WA is an excellent initiative and was only possible thanks to vital HMMS funds."