HSE looks to curb farming accidents
The Health and Safety Executive (
HSE) is to launch a campaign aimed at reducing the number of deaths and serious accidents which occur each year in the farming industry.
Despite farming only employing about 1.5% of the British workforce the sector is the cause of nearly 20% of all workers deaths. Over the past decade the HSE has tried to inform farmers to take more thorough precautions to avoid work accidents, but sadly the number of deaths has not fallen in that time.
Judith Donovan from the HSE commented that:
“It is simply unacceptable that almost every week someone dies in a needless farm accident. These accidents don’t just destroy lives, they destroy whole families, and often their farms too. They continue to happen, year after year after year. For this reason the HSE is launching a campaign in January to help encourage farmers to take extra care to stay safe.”
Updated on 29/12/2008