Farm Safety

NFU Mutual has urged farmers forced to use their own tractors and trailers for harvest transport to regularly check brakes and hitch mechanisms to minimise the risk of incidents.

Whether opening your farm to welcome visitors for events or toying with the idea of on-far diversification, it is paramount to protect the health and welfare of visitors while safeguarding your farm business.

Farms are not parks or playgrounds and must be treated with caution like any other workplace, industry chiefs have warned.

A North Yorkshire farm has been fined for safety breaches after a self-employed farm worker fell approximately three metres from a 360-excavator vehicle.

A dog walker was found dead in a field containing cows and calves.

Britain’s workplace regulator has urged farmers to improve safety after four deaths were recorded on farm in just over two weeks.

Industry must stop tolerating the ‘reckless behaviour’ of using mobile phones while driving tractors, quad bikes and heavy machinery.

As we’ve seen today, making your farm a safer place to work and live doesn’t have to cost a fortune. In an industry that, this year, recorded almost double the number of fatal injuries, we can all agree that it has never been more important to rethink risk and put safety first.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.

Farm transport and machinery continues to be a main cause of life changing and life ending injuries on GB farms, accounting for 40 per cent of all farm worker fatalities in the last decade.