Now retired after a lifetime trying to improve farm safety! Ex-HSE; Douglas Bomford Trust Sec; IOSH Rural Ind Gp Chair and IOSH Chiltern Cttee; APSE Consultant Trainer [t/a AP(HSC)]; ran Beds Farmers Training Gp etc
“Active supervision” advocated to protect #children on #farms - It would certainly contribute to improving #childsafety and #farmsafety , so give it a read, think about it, and share it. #FarmSafetyHasNoBorders Don’t forget our own legislation though - No child under 13 on (working) tractors or equipment, and assess suitability to cope with tasks (and emergency situations) beyond that age. See Health and Safety Executive guidance: https://lnkd.in/e3SU_eUQ
Children living on or visiting farms need a helping hand to remain safe. Active supervision ensures children remain in sight and within arm's reach and involves staying engages, anticipating potential risks, and guiding children as they navigate the farm environment. Watch the video below - the team at Clovelly Dairy in Tasmania have some great guidelines in place to keep children engaged and learning about dairy farming in a safe and responsible way. #nationalfarmsafetyweek #insafehands #farmsafety
peter seward
3mo
Chatting about this with my old mate Dave O'Neil only last night. He said something like 'tou will never stop farmers believing they can do what they like on their own land'. I think that's what it comes down to in the end. I also asked him if he thought accident statistics were useful in getting messages across and I posed the question of why we think there is a crisis when the death rate is static over quite a few years and when I said it was in the mid twenties he thought it was in the forties! Either way what difference does it make if either figure is accurate? Does it affect the way we try to improve it? At the moment I see no improvement in safety but there is an exponential increase in 'initiatives' and hand wringing but no agriculture experts at HSE or any more visits by inspectors. Who is measuring the cost benefit? Keep it up old chap!
Director at seward engineering limited
3moI think this is a totally different approach that has merit but can't work here due to age restrictions as Alan rightly states. Can you image writing safe systems if work and method statements to suit? The examples shown are more like factories so appropriate measures could be possible. If you look at the US videos you will see farmers making a virtue of having kids in farms.