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Health & Safety on farms

  • 15-05-2017 10:22am
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    locky76
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    Folks, given that we work in the most dangerous industry in Ireland should there be a re-evaluation of how we view Heath & safety?
    I have to add that I work in applying health & safety although I have done plenty of things down through the years which I'm or articulately proud of and have broken bones, suffered injuries and generally had a laidsez faire attitude to safety.
    However the general principle of health & safety is that if proporrly implemented it will cut deaths in half within a short period of time- there will be 60 people saved over a 5 year period.
    I think it would be a great service for independent safety experts from an Agri background to come in annually and carry out a complete audit of a farmer's safety system and make 5 implementable recommendations for the farmer. I think this would be a reasonable amount of improvements.
    The biggest thing with health & safety is that it's very profitable for the farmer to implement as it dramatically reduces the chances of them getting injured therefore they can keep working away.
    I'd be interested in your thoughts.

    Mod note H&S thread moved in here as we have a sticky on H&S for the Month
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