Farm Safety

Video-sharing website TikTok has investigated several ’dangerous’ driving videos produced by young farmers. 

Leading figures within the agricultural sector have highlighted mental health awareness training for individuals and businesses should be ‘compulsory’, in an effort to help those struggling within rural communities.

A woman and a 20-year-old man have been killed in two separate tractor incidents within 24 hours of each other.

Stephanie Berkeley, Farm Safety Foundation manager, reveals the top five safety apps voted for by farmers.

With one death and five new cases of skin cancer a week attributed to occupation UV exposure, farmers have been urged to protect themselves during the summer months.

With isolation and social distancing impacting farmers’ mental health, Stephanie Berkeley, Farm Safety Foundation manager, is calling on everyone to look out for each other in these challenging times.

The Farm Safety Foundation (FSF) has urged farmers to keep taking safety seriously following a 37.5 per cent decline in farm fatalities.

Five seconds can change your life. Here, farmer and director of L and K Group and North West Auctions, Trevor Wilson, talks to Hannah Binns about his near-death incident falling nine feet from a barn roof one sunny afternoon in May.

In his hard-hitting and brave retelling of the fall that changed his life, farmer and auction mart director Trevor Wilson has laid bare the profound impact an on-farm health and safety incident can have on an individual and those around them.

A two-year-old is thought to have died in a slurry pit incident after being found unresponsive at a farm in Lancashire.