As another Farm Safety Week draws to a close, it is right that we finish by showing our gratitude to those individuals who are quietly working to make our farms safer places to live and to work. Steady, practical and committed, our Farm Safety Heroes are setting standards through their everyday actions. They may not
Richard Bate CFIOSH President, Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) Earlier this year, a farmer in his 70s tragically lost his life after falling into a grain silo in Suffolk. This was a stark reminder of the very real dangers faced in agriculture and that incidents like this, often involving confined spaces, can turn
Action is at the heart of Farm Safety Week. While recognising the risks is important, real change happens when people take practical steps to make farming and the wider livestock industry safer. That’s why, for Day 4 of the campaign, we are delighted to hear from Zanna Dennis, MartSafe Trainer, about the Livestock Auctioneers Association’s
There is no shortage of noise when it comes to farm safety. Every year, the HSE and HSENI figures are shared, the headlines written and the stark reminders delivered about agriculture’s consistently poor safety record. And yet, despite the awareness, the reality remains the same – too many people are still not coming home at
The reality of responding to a farm accident is that, even with first aid training behind you, you may find yourself frozen in a moment of fight or flight. It is one thing to sit through a course; quite another to be faced with a serious incident in real time. How many of us, if
STEPHANIE BERKELEY, MANAGER, FARM SAFETY FOUNDATION Farming is one of the most rewarding industries, but it can come with its own dangers. When something goes wrong, it often happens quickly and in remote locations where help can take time to arrive. In those critical moments, it isn’t a trained paramedic who is first on the
When a farm accident happens, there is no pause button – only the quiet, often chaotic urgency of what happens next. In places where help may be miles away, knowing what to do in those first critical moments can be the difference between life and death. Knowing how to respond – how to keep someone
In the industry, we often talk about farm safety in numbers. Numbers of lives lost, numbers of accidents and while they are stark, attention-grabbing and necessary, for all their impact, these numbers can also create distance, a sense that incidents happen somewhere else, to someone else. The reality is far closer to home. Each year,
STEPHANIE BERKELEY, MANAGER, FARM SAFETY FOUNDATION Each summer, Farm Safety Week returns with a familiar and sobering focus: the number of lives lost on our farms. These figures matter deeply and should be a moment for us all to stop and reflect as every life lost is a tragedy that ripples through families, businesses and
It’s Back! Farm Safety Week returns this summer from 20-24 July for its 14th annual campaign, managed and funded by the team here at the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) and this year, we’re doing things a little differently… This year, Farm Safety Week is not about statistics… it’s about PEOPLE. For the past 14