Tune in to our farm safety webinar!

Drirwin

Member
Dear All,
I thought some of you might be interested in the NTSAg live webinar, which will take place tomorrow, Thursday the 26th April from 10.30am UK time (5.30am EST). You can see a programme for the event attached, feel free to log in and out as suits your own schedule. The full recorded event will also be available via the NTSAg website (https://research.abdn.ac.uk/nts-farming/) after the 27th of April.


In order to listen in, comment and ask questions during the live event you should use this guest link:

https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/4cf66b3dff084fc89b39f6b8042cc659


You can login from 9am (4am EST) on the day. When you click the link you will be directed to Bb collaborate, and given the option to join ‘Amy Irwin meeting room’. Please type in your name - you can use your real name or an anonymous name such as 'farmer a' and click ‘join session’. You will then be met with a placeholder that will tell you how many people are ‘in’ the room. From 9.30am onwards there will be a welcome sign, and then at 10.30am the live presentations will begin.

I hope to ‘see’ some of you there tomorrow!

Amy
 

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Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
Interested and hope to watch some of this - curious to hear from HSE, and also to see how you can provide sandwiches for a webinar! No indication where the physical meeting takes place, as I would have been interested in attending, with some notice. Alas, spring is a busy time of year for farmers (sowing, lambing, calving, turnout, etc.) and two weeks before the submission deadline for BPS isn't ideal for agri consultants either - perhaps a bit more NTS for the organisers would have picked a more suitable time of year.
 

Drirwin

Member
Hello, its being held at the University of Aberdeen - I have posted invites to the physical meeting several times on here over the past 3 months, along with links to the website with full details of the event (https://research.abdn.ac.uk/nts-farming/home/non-technical-skills-and-farm-safety-workshop/). If you wanted to come you would be welcome - but no-one on here has indicated they would like to attend in person until now (possibly lack of situation awareness led to post being missed? ;-)). In terms of timing, sadly we have to consider the schedules of all the speakers as well as the potential attendees, and this was the most suitable date overall - its why we added the webinar element so people could pop in and out as they like. Anyway, I hope you do tune in, and I look forward to feedback and questions from everyone who does so :)
 

Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
Hello, its being held at the University of Aberdeen - I have posted invites to the physical meeting several times on here over the past 3 months, along with links to the website with full details of the event (https://research.abdn.ac.uk/nts-farming/home/non-technical-skills-and-farm-safety-workshop/). If you wanted to come you would be welcome - but no-one on here has indicated they would like to attend in person until now (possibly lack of situation awareness led to post being missed? ;-)). In terms of timing, sadly we have to consider the schedules of all the speakers as well as the potential attendees, and this was the most suitable date overall - its why we added the webinar element so people could pop in and out as they like. Anyway, I hope you do tune in, and I look forward to feedback and questions from everyone who does so :)

Alas, missed all the earlier invites - in spite of Mrs HM telling me I spend too much time on here!

Hope to be there in web-world, for the HSE and IOSH talks - will make my own sandwiches.
 

Drirwin

Member
Thanks for watching.
In terms of views, well the first half has had twice as many as the second, possibly because its shorter, but also hopefully because it brings in a new approach that is cheap and easy to implement on an individual level. I hope that the viewing numbers continue to grow, though I expect this to happen slowly given that you are all a tad busy at the moment :)
 

Drirwin

Member
I am also really pleased with the response to our farm safety packs (and if anyone else would like a free pack let me know), so perhaps some people prefer to read the hard copy rather than watch something online?
 

awkward

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Location
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what do u mean . it does but where do you draw a line. how do u cater for idiots walking where they like. individual responsibility for their own actions. no farmer begins a day to cause harm to anybody. now to look and see what the linke is
 

Drirwin

Member
what do u mean . it does but where do you draw a line. how do u cater for idiots walking where they like. individual responsibility for their own actions. no farmer begins a day to cause harm to anybody. now to look and see what the linke is

I am not quite sure what you are referring to here, but I am guessing the 'individual level' comment? All I mean by that is that some of the things we cover in terms of non-technical skills are things that lone farmers can implement pretty much immediately, just by being aware of the issues. Of course larger farms can implement things as well, but it's important to think about the farmer who works alone too. No farmer wants to be unsafe, or involved in an accident, but because you guys deal with a lot of risks, work long hours, often alone, it means the risks of an accident occurring are heightened, and if an accident does happen its likely to be fairly serious (to take fatigue as an example - if I am tired and miss something when reading a report, the ramifications are pretty small and easily compensated, if a farmer is tired and misses something when operating heavy machinery the risks are much higher). Mistakes happen, you can't blame people for making a mistake, the aim of non-technical skills is just to make spotting a problem easier, and to help reduce the risk of a mistake happening. I hope that some of the concepts we talk about in the webinar are fairly straightforward, and can be implemented by farmers with a little practice, and for free, and who knows maybe some of the skills could save your life one day :)
 

Drirwin

Member
Also, not all of the pressure is on farmers - one of the things I raise in the webinar is that farmers reported seatbelts are not fit for purpose in one of my studies - that suggests to me that some design modifications are required to increase seatbelt usability, which should also make it then more likely that people will use them. Hope that makes sense.
 

awkward

Member
Location
kerry ireland
Also, not all of the pressure is on farmers - one of the things I raise in the webinar is that farmers reported seatbelts are not fit for purpose in one of my studies - that suggests to me that some design modifications are required to increase seatbelt usability, which should also make it then more likely that people will use them. Hope that makes sense.
having listened to some of the program I get where your coming from and can only be a positive.
 

Heratat

New Member
Thanks for the youtube links. I'm just a beginner on the farm so any information is useful for me (hopefully). Despite of the criticism I saw above, I'm a firm believer into the Murphy's law, so I'd better be a bore than armless.

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