Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector, Iain Sutherland, made the plea at a workshop on non-technical skills and farm safety at Aberdeen University.
He said of the 30 people killed in agriculture in 2016/17, nine were killed as a result of being struck by a farm vehicle making it the biggest single cause of workplace deaths in agriculture.
Accidents involving machinery accounted for 9 deaths in 2016/17
Six were killed as a result of being trapped by something collapsing, five were killed when struck by objects and three were killed by contact with electricity.
The other causes of death were contact with electricity, falling from height, animals, contact with machinery, asphyxiation, and being struck against something fixed.
Mr Sutherland said the figures depicted a bit of the “same old” and the safety problems and solutions in farming had been around for a long time.
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