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Look out - look up - look after yourself - #FarmSafety
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<blockquote data-quote="Will Wilson" data-source="post: 4724240" data-attributes="member: 9862"><p>The sea change in building site safety was the monitoring of accidents by the customer - Anyone building for Bovis for example is expected to meet a safety specification, monitor and publish site safety records.</p><p></p><p>You get certificates/awards for safe working on sites and contractors looking for approved status work hard to achieve these. In this example Bovis would have people on site monitoring for best practice/HSE rules before rewarding /penalising good/ bad practice.</p><p></p><p>When this thought process was first introduced I am sure it was seen as a threat by the construction industry and I expect used as a way of penalising builders.</p><p></p><p>The reality is it has been a massive success and this mentality exists in large scale farms supplying supermarkets in the UK - no supermarket wants to be linked to a death on a farm that directly supply's them.</p><p></p><p>However - cereal growers, small farms, and contractors have a very tenuous link to the end Supermarket and don't seem to be under the same incentives to improve a safety record.</p><p></p><p>So if we were serious about farm HSE we should be demanding it from our retailers and our grain merchants and our contractors and they should be demanding it from their farmers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Will Wilson, post: 4724240, member: 9862"] The sea change in building site safety was the monitoring of accidents by the customer - Anyone building for Bovis for example is expected to meet a safety specification, monitor and publish site safety records. You get certificates/awards for safe working on sites and contractors looking for approved status work hard to achieve these. In this example Bovis would have people on site monitoring for best practice/HSE rules before rewarding /penalising good/ bad practice. When this thought process was first introduced I am sure it was seen as a threat by the construction industry and I expect used as a way of penalising builders. The reality is it has been a massive success and this mentality exists in large scale farms supplying supermarkets in the UK - no supermarket wants to be linked to a death on a farm that directly supply's them. However - cereal growers, small farms, and contractors have a very tenuous link to the end Supermarket and don't seem to be under the same incentives to improve a safety record. So if we were serious about farm HSE we should be demanding it from our retailers and our grain merchants and our contractors and they should be demanding it from their farmers. [/QUOTE]
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