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<blockquote data-quote="The Ruminant" data-source="post: 5173844" data-attributes="member: 487"><p>Health and Safety is an interesting area. Historically, agriculture has been a mixture of macho (“I’ll be alright”) and suffering in silence (“no-one likes a whinger”).</p><p></p><p>However there are far too many avoidable deaths and injuries in the industry and so a wholesale change of culture is required. It’s difficult, because changing a lifetime’s habits is hard. Persistence, persistence, persistence, the only way.</p><p></p><p>An example: our forklifts have 6-monthly safety checks, carried out by a firm through our NFU insurance. We pay nothing for it. The last check threw up a few faults which could, potentially, endanger the lives of those using it and which needed to be done before the machine could be permitted to be used again.</p><p></p><p>One of the older workers was grumbling, saying the inspectors were far too pedantic, and saying he could find a guy who, if we paid a small fee, would check the machine and sign it off as safe. He couldn’t see the checks were for his benefit, to keep him and his co-workers safe. I’m not blaming him, he thought the inspector was over-zealous and he was trying to save us money - a small fee for a pass certificate rather than a large bill for remedial work. This was his culture and changing it a hard and ongoing task</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Ruminant, post: 5173844, member: 487"] Health and Safety is an interesting area. Historically, agriculture has been a mixture of macho (“I’ll be alright”) and suffering in silence (“no-one likes a whinger”). However there are far too many avoidable deaths and injuries in the industry and so a wholesale change of culture is required. It’s difficult, because changing a lifetime’s habits is hard. Persistence, persistence, persistence, the only way. An example: our forklifts have 6-monthly safety checks, carried out by a firm through our NFU insurance. We pay nothing for it. The last check threw up a few faults which could, potentially, endanger the lives of those using it and which needed to be done before the machine could be permitted to be used again. One of the older workers was grumbling, saying the inspectors were far too pedantic, and saying he could find a guy who, if we paid a small fee, would check the machine and sign it off as safe. He couldn’t see the checks were for his benefit, to keep him and his co-workers safe. I’m not blaming him, he thought the inspector was over-zealous and he was trying to save us money - a small fee for a pass certificate rather than a large bill for remedial work. This was his culture and changing it a hard and ongoing task [/QUOTE]
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