New code of practice drawn up in a bid to improve health and safety in agriculture

A NEW Code of Practice in Agriculture was distributed to every farmer in recent weeks, in the latest bid to reverse the sector’s disastrous health and safety record.

In 2006, 18 people died in the agricultural sector, the same figure as 2005. Ten of these fatalities involved people aged over 65, and there were two child fatalities.

Eight of the fatal farm accidents occurred in Cork, out of the county’s total of 11 workplace fatalities.