Health & Safety Update | October 2019
The quarterly Health & Safety Update is to assist you in ensuring that you are thinking about topical health and safety matters on your farm or estate. Health and safety is a vital part of any business operation.
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) have published the latest statistics on fatal injuries in agriculture in 2018-19. This update reviews these figures and provides a summary of the most common causes of fatalities.
We consider biosecurity and, in a wet autumn, we remind ourselves that farmers who deposit mud on the road are potentially liable for a range of offences and consider the steps to be taken to prevent this problem arising. Having recently looked at the dangers of lone working, we touch in this update, upon tools and technologies for good communication.
This update also considers general precautions to be observed when handling or working with substances hazardous to health. Lastly, we look at managing contractors on your farm or estate, and the health and safety implications of electric gates.
