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Hi all, I have the following available to send out to farmers / farming organisations for free (each based on research spanning the past 9 years with hundreds of UK & Irish farmers): Tractor situation awareness checklists: Situation awareness can be summed up using the aviation acronym NUT -...

Hello all, I have been working with Kura human factors, an applied human factors organisation that typically delivers safety critical skill training to pilots and construction workers, to design a farmer specific safety critical / non-technical skills training program. Non-technical / safety...

Really keen to get insight from female farmers for this survey, see full details below: We would like to invite you to participate in a short online survey study designed to investigate farmer thoughts and attitudes towards ATV riding and helmet wearing. We are a pair of researchers from the...

Dear all, We would like to invite you to participate in a 20min online survey study designed to investigate farmer thoughts and attitudes towards ATV riding and helmet wearing. We are a pair of researchers from the University of Aberdeen, School of Psychology (you can read more about our...

.... again this is all about distilling the research into formats that can be viewed in seconds, so this is by no means an exhaustive overview, but since many of you were kind enough to take part I thought you might like to see some more of the results .... so here are some more results from our...

Dear All, Some of you may remember taking part in an online survey examining farmer stress and stress management a few months ago. The student has now completed his thesis and was very pleased to recruit more than 150 farmers for his study (for which he gained an A-grade) - big thanks to all...

Hello all, hope you are well, Just wanted to let you know NTSAg, University of Aberdeen, have now launched our FREE tractor situation awareness app - SA Go. The app takes our original tractor situation awareness checklist (based on research with farmers and launched on Landward) and converts...

Hello all, I just wanted to draw your attention to this FREE Lantra elearning module on on-technical skills: https://www.lantra.co.uk/course/non-technical-skills-farming-e-learning Its entirely self-paced, all done online and gets you a nice certificate on completion - to date 300 UK farmers...

Hello all, My PhD student, Ilinca, is still looking for more farmers to take part in her short interview study on stress and fatigue. We are hoping to get farmers from across the UK and Ireland but have only managed Irish farmers thus far. See official invite below for details, all help much...

Hello all, For those who don't know me I am an applied Psychology lecturer from the University of Aberdeen with an interest in farmer safety and wellbeing (you can check out much of my research here: https://research.abdn.ac.uk/nts-farming/). I am particularly focused on farmer safety critical...

Happy new year! Final call for participants to take part in our (University of Aberdeen) online stress survey - we are particularly keen to recruit farm workers and contractors at this stage, as these roles are under-represented within our sample. Participation just involves completing a short...

Hi all, I have 40 copies of our tractor checklist (as seen on landward https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50318921) and pocket safety guide available to post out if anyone would like a copy? Just drop me a message via the forum or email me: [email protected]...

Hello all, I have a new University of Aberdeen research project for you all to take part in :-) This time we want to learn more about how farmers think about, and deal with, stress. This study is part of an undergraduate thesis project and is composed of an online survey which will ask you...

Hello all, I am currently developing a study on stress with one of my UG thesis students. As part of the study we have designed some fictional scenarios for participants to assess. I would like a farmer to check these scenarios to make sure they make sense, are relevant and show up to date...

Hi all, I have been busy posting A65 pocket farm safety guides up and down the country and find myself with 30 copies that don't yet have a home (whilst I wait for the next print run to come in and can send out larger batches). If you would like a copy (or several copies) of the guide please do...

Dear All, I am excited to share our latest project with you all - an A6 pocket guide to farmer safety critical non-technical skills. The guide condenses our farming safety research (we are a research group from the university of Aberdeen) from the past 5 years into an easy to read format with...

Hello all, For farm safety week we have 20 farm safety info packs to send out to folks in the U.K. and Ireland. The packs contain leaflets based on our research with farmers covering: stress, fatigue and conflict management, speaking up about safety, safety around livestock, non-technical skills...

Hello all, I am hoping to take our farm safety research on the road this summer by getting a trade stand at a few agricultural shows. I have already requested a place at our local show, and tried (and failed) to get a place at the Royal Highland. I wondered if anyone can recommend any good...

Hello all, On the basis of our research, and in collaboration with Lantra, Teagasc and Creed Consultancy we have developed a tractor driver safety and situation awareness checklist. We are due to launch the checklist later this week and I would like to recruit some of you to try the checklist...

Hello all, I just wanted to let you know that we finished collecting data for the tractor safety project, which I have written up as a paper. If anyone is interested in reading the whole thing let me know and I can send you a pdf - I cant share too widely until its been reviewed and published...