Farm Safety

Bernard Matthews Foods, which specialises in turkey products, has been fined £400,000 after a health and safety incident left a worker paralysed.

 A woman in her 70s has been found dead in a field after it was believed she was injured by cattle. 

A 55-year-old farmer from Kinross has been killed in an incident involving at all-terrain vehicle (ATV).

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

Video footage showing a tractor swerving on an A-road before mounting an oncoming car has sparked warnings about the consequences of dangerous driving.

A 58-year-old farmer has died after being attacked by a bull during a Bovine Tuberculosis (TB) test.

A TikTok video showing a young farmer lying in a row of silage while a rake drives over him has sparked farm safety calls.

A TikTok video showing a young farmer lying in a row of silage while a rake drives over him has sparked farm safety calls.

As I am writing this article it is currently Farm Safety Week (July 18-22), which inadvertently lets you in on a little bit of Farmers Guardian magic with deadlines for articles always a week before actual publication.

Many farmers are working alone under the false assumption they can, and should, do it all, which, combined with ever-increasing pressures on-farm, creates a ‘cooking pot of potential trouble waiting to happen’.