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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 7502073" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>Its not a question of money per se, but money brings corporatism, and corporatism brings H&S. Its noticeable that the vast majority of farm fatalities are owner occupier/workers or family members, not paid third party employees. Most other dangerous industries do not have the owner being the manager and the worker. They have shareholders, paid management and paid employees. Farming can't afford that and is not profitable enough to attract the large corporations to buy up farm land and take over, which they would do if there was more money in it. Farming survives as a peasant activity, and as such has the peasant attitude to H&S - it'll be alright, I've done it like that for years.</p><p></p><p>The other thing as I keep banging on about is to enforce a strict retirement age for farming of 60. If you are caught working on a farm after that age you would be committing a criminal offence and would be prosecuted. You could own the farm, and/or be a business partner, but not be involved in the day to day management or working thereof. That would cut more than half the farming deaths in an instant. It would also mean that farming lost the awful mantra 'One day son this will all be yours' that elderly tyrants hold over their sons (and daughters). If they HAD to retire at 60 the next generation would get a chance. Or there would be lots more farms available to rent for younger entrants. Either way it would be a Good Thing. And I speak as someone aged 50..........</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 7502073, member: 818"] Its not a question of money per se, but money brings corporatism, and corporatism brings H&S. Its noticeable that the vast majority of farm fatalities are owner occupier/workers or family members, not paid third party employees. Most other dangerous industries do not have the owner being the manager and the worker. They have shareholders, paid management and paid employees. Farming can't afford that and is not profitable enough to attract the large corporations to buy up farm land and take over, which they would do if there was more money in it. Farming survives as a peasant activity, and as such has the peasant attitude to H&S - it'll be alright, I've done it like that for years. The other thing as I keep banging on about is to enforce a strict retirement age for farming of 60. If you are caught working on a farm after that age you would be committing a criminal offence and would be prosecuted. You could own the farm, and/or be a business partner, but not be involved in the day to day management or working thereof. That would cut more than half the farming deaths in an instant. It would also mean that farming lost the awful mantra 'One day son this will all be yours' that elderly tyrants hold over their sons (and daughters). If they HAD to retire at 60 the next generation would get a chance. Or there would be lots more farms available to rent for younger entrants. Either way it would be a Good Thing. And I speak as someone aged 50.......... [/QUOTE]
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