Two deaths so far this year as inspector calls quads the second-most dangerous machine on farms

The fourth annual Farm Safety Week starts today, with the IFA and its partners reminding people that farming kills and injures more people than any other industry in Ireland and the UK.

Primary schools have been urged to take 30 minutes before the summer break to join in a national effort to prevent children from being seriously injured or dying on a farm this summer.

The Health and Safety Authority fears another spike in farm deaths because of the scrapping of milk quotas.

Farmers will be asked to help each other to boost safety on their land, with the Health and Safety Authority admitting it is “clutching at straws” in its efforts to reduce serious accidents.

A senior health and safety inspector has expressed serious concerns for farm safety this year following the worst year for farm deaths in almost 20 years in 2014.

Elderly farmers are still at risk of serious workplace accidents despite a growing focus on measures to cut risks.

Safety authorities take steps to stop rising death toll on farms

The Health and Safety Authority has said there is a need to consider zero tolerance of children in some situations on farms.

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With recent deaths bringing the loss of life on farms this year to 11, the Health and Safety Authority and the Irish Farmers Association have urged farmers to give farm safety their highest priority.

Weary and running out of gas, the Kerry footballers and Cork hurlers met their Waterloo in the summer of ’87

The Health and Safety Authority has launched a new website featuring farmers who tell how accidents affected their families and friends.

A KERRY farmer has invented a device that could help save the lives of farmers in danger of being attacked by bulls.

PURE-BRED bulls are far more dangerous and temperamental than cross-breds, according to research from Teagasc.

ONE of Kerry’s most popular seaside resorts will see no development in the next five years, it was claimed yesterday.

A TWO-WEEK blitz of farm inspections is being conducted countrywide by the Health and Safety Authority.

A TWO-week intensive inspection campaign of farms by the Health and Safety Authority began last Monday.

NINE people have lost their lives in farm-related accidents so far this year compared with 11 for all of 2009.

SOME farmers may face prosecution for failing to comply with a practical health and safety proposal in an industry with a high level of fatalities.

FARMING accounted for almost 40% of all workplace fatalities in 2008, although just over 6% of the workforce is employed in the agri-sector.

STRATEGIES to curb farm accident deaths and injuries are to be considered at a national seminar jointly organised by the Health and Safety Authority and Teagasc.

A TWO-week blitz of farm inspections by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) began yesterday in an effort to reduce the number of accidents that occur in agriculture each year.

PREVENTING farm accidents that involve children and elderly people will be two key themes of the Health and Safety Authority at the three-day National Ploughing Championships which begin today in Tullamore, Co Offaly.

A NATIONWIDE inspection campaign aimed at reducing the level of farming related deaths and accidents has started. Six people have died in agriculture so far in 2007 and it is estimated there are some 3,000 people injured on farms each year.

AN POST informs us that 300 sub-post offices will close this year. In 2006, 44 sub-post offices closed, making a total of 400 closures by stealth since 2002.

QUARRY bosses risk being closed down as a new safety blitz gets underway.

QUARRY bosses risk being closed down as a new safety blitz gets underway.

Just five minutes could save the life of someone on a farm this year, the Health and Safety Authority insisted today.

The Health and Safety Authority has expressed concern about the high level of deaths on Irish farms this year.

AN POST needs funding and the Government should grant subventions to the postal services.

A sand quarry in Co Galway was closed down today after the High Court ruled a litany of safety errors had put workers in serious danger.

WE hear of the high costs of tribunals which have been going on for seven years.