Hogan’s farm safety idea meets frosty reception
Patrick Rohan, ICMSA’s farm and rural affairs chairman, said adding farm safety to the list of cross-compliance requirements would add pressure on farmers at a time when pressures are already building at a rapid rate.
“Rather than threatening to penalise farmers, schemes such as the Farm Safety Scheme are a much more progressive method of helping to improve farm safety. The commissioner could examine an addition to the new GLAS scheme whereby farmers would be incentivised to carry out additional farm safety measures on their farms,” he said.
