Things that would improve farm safety ?

[Derrick Hughes]

Quad bike is bad as well

 

[Scholsey]

Quad bike is bad as well

Have been driving quads for 22 years and only time i tipped one over was when i was a kid driving like a idiot, i dont understand how people do it!

 

[quattro]

Half of the livestock ones are members of the public too, not good.

Which is a good enough reason not to allow footpaths to be open when livestock is in the field

 

[neilo]

Nearly half livestock related View attachment 972260View attachment 972261

I didn’t see that many on there that are specifically livestock related. Most look like machinery related to me, whether that machinery was being used for farming livestock or cropping.

 

[7610 super q]

2 died felling trees. Agricultural ? 1 lorry driver hits power lines. Agricultural ?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Which is a good enough reason not to allow footpaths to be open when livestock is in the field

I was thinking something similar, a risk assessment would show that taking dogs on footpaths can cause problems with suckler cows and calves, so dogs should be banned from footpaths.

 

[glasshouse]

If u watch some of the stupidity on utube its a wonder there arent more killed

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I didn’t see that many on there that are specifically livestock related. Most look like machinery related to me, whether that machinery was being used for farming livestock or cropping.

To be fair quite a few are footpaths , the livestock ones are mainly Bulls

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I was thinking something similar, a risk assessment would show that taking dogs on footpaths can cause problems with suckler cows and calves, so dogs should be banned from footpaths.

They won't do that , public information is the only way , advise people of the risk and what to do if something happens ,
Stanmer Park East Sussex has cattle on the park and surrounding fields , they get hundreds of walkers a day many with dogs all over it , no information anywhere to advise of the risks

 

[quattro]

They won't do that , public information is the only way , advise people of the risk and what to do if something happens ,
Stanmer Park East Sussex has cattle on the park and surrounding fields , they get hundreds of walkers a day many with dogs all over it , no information anywhere to advise of the risks

Trouble with giving advice is,you can end up getting blamed

 

[str2mslf]

2 died felling trees. Agricultural ? 1 lorry driver hits power lines. Agricultural ?

If cutting/trimming was done by farmer/worker to save costs and if lorry hit power line that was on a farm while doing service for a farmer - all of them can and should be classified as accidents in agriculture.
I'm surprised with number of people that died because of ATV's and livestock. Maybe it's time to put warnings around farms about dangerous animals so MOP's won't have a corrida.
A child killed by slurry gas and a man entangled around PTO are the most gruesome in my opinion. And probably ones that could be easily prevented.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Trouble with giving advice is,you can end up getting blamed

I was thinking more the Government, or The National Trust Perhaps , backed up by the NFU

 

[HatsOff]

Surely members of the public being killed on footpaths should not go down as a agricultural employment sector death? Same as people killed on farms whilst doing building works should go down as building site incidents?

Because the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is also to protect '... persons other than persons at work against risks to health or safety arising out of or in connection with the activities of persons at work,' and keeping cattle is in connection to agriculture, they will be counted.

If construction work on a farm was a 'proper' construction site with separation of responsibilities, with a Principal Contractor with written appointments under CDM 2015, then it would be a construction fatality. If it was maintenance work, or if the farmer was acting as the contractor, then it is an agricultural death.

 

[betweenthelines]

Lots of them were predictable.

Falling through roofs

Unsecured crate on FLT

Tipped trailer descended

Struck OHPL

ATV and tractors tipping over

 

[tinsheet]

Have been driving quads for 22 years and only time i tipped one over was when i was a kid driving like a idiot, i dont understand how people do it!

Easy on steep hill ground, moving stock, turn to quick, hidden dips in the Heather etc