People often believe that farm children understand farm risks, but most children who are hurt in farm incidents are family members. Today marks the final day of Farm Safety Week 2016 supported by the Farm Safety Foundation, Farm Safety Partnerships, the Health & Safety Executive, Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland and Health &
We farmers take too many short cuts when time is against us. I have related this story on several occasions so it doesn’t happen to anyone else. In recent years, work-related fatalities in the UK and Ireland’s farming industries have been disproportionate compared to the number of deaths in other industries. Tractors and moving vehicles
I count my blessings it wasn’t worse. However, the unpredictable nature of livestock, no matter how placid the animal, is something that cannot be underestimated Against the background of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) annual Livestock Event opening today at Birmingham’s NEC, day three of Farm Safety Week casts a spotlight on
Everybody in farming knows somebody who has been injured or killed in an accident. In recent years, work-related fatalities in the UK and Ireland’s farming industries have been disproportionate compared to the number of deaths in other industries. Tuesday of Farm Safety Week focuses on Machinery. Poorly used or faulty machinery is a major cause
“I want to highlight the impact an accident like this can have on your family and your business. We’re much more conscious of safety all the while on the farm now and it’s made me slow down and think about every process.” Today marks the start of the fourth annual Farm Safety Week, an initiative
Farm Safety Week takes place from 4-8 July 2016 and, once again, is being supported by the Farm Safety Foundation, Farm Safety Partnerships, the Health & Safety Executive, Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland and the Health & Safety Authority, Ireland. The week acts as a reminder to local and rural communities that
Northern Ireland’s summer school holidays are fast approaching so the team from the NI Farm Safety Partnership are urging any parents to take some time to sit down with children and watch this great Youtube video from the Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland
Another Farm Safety Week is just around the corner and we need your help… Farm Safety Week 2016 will take place from 4-8 July 2016 and is supported by the Farm Safety Foundation, Farm Safety Partnerships, the Health & Safety Executive, Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland and the Health & Safety Authority, Ireland.
This week the Farm Safety Foundation took our Introduction to Farm Safety training to Sparsholt College Hampshire. Over two gloriously sunny, but blisteringly cold, days we trained over 100 farming students and caught the attention of BBC South Today who came along and filmed us for their lunchtime and evening news broadcasts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0718129/south-today-23022016 BBC Radio Solent also picked up
Please don’t take any chances when mixing slurry – you are risking your own life and the lives of others as well as putting your livestock in danger. With the closed period for spreading slurry ending at midnight on Friday 31 January, the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is urging farmers