Farm Safety
HSA: Farmers must consider risks before undertaking jobs
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has urged farmers to consider risks before undertaking work on their farm. The appeal...
Farm Deaths
Farm Safety
HSA: 20 work fatalities in agriculture, forestry and fishing in 2023
Provisional data from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) shows that 20 people lost their lives in work-related incidents in...
Rural Life
Organisations co-sign letter to commissioners about deaths in agri
Two major organisations – European Federation of Food Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT) and European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)...
Rural Life
Man and woman die in separate farm incidents over weekend
A man and a woman have died in separate farm incidents which occurred in counties Donegal and Kilkenny over the...
Agri-Business
HSA: Farming still over-represented in fatality figures
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has said that the farming sector is still “over-represented” in its fatality figures, accounting...
Farm Safety
25 deaths related to farm construction work over a 9-year period
In Ireland, 25 people lost their lives as a result of farm construction work between 2010 and 2019, according to...
Agri Politics
8 deaths on Irish farms this year: 'Farmers have to put safety first'
Farmers must put safety first on their farms – because not doing so puts them, their children and their neighbours...
Rural Life
Tractors involved in majority of workplace vehicle deaths
Tractors were involved in the majority of workplace fatalities resulting from vehicle accidents in 2018, according to the Health and...
Rural Life
Clare farm tragedy last year could have taken another life
By Gordon Deegan A tragic crush accident in Co. Clare last year, which took one man’s life, could have taken...
Rural Life
Minute's silence to be observed in marts for farm fatalities
A minute’s silence will be observed at all marts nationwide this week. This will be held in remembrance of loved...
Rural Life
Reminder: Tomorrow's event for farm accident victims
The fourth remembrance service for victims of farm accidents will be held in the Church of the Most Holy Rosary,...
Rural Life
Farm deaths over double the amount in 2016
Farm deaths have more than doubled the number of fatalities recorded for the first five months in 2016 in an...
Rural Life
€417,000 allocated to farm safety initiatives in 2017
The Health and Safety Authority estimates that it will spend €417,000 on farm safety initiatives in 2017, maintaining funding at...
Rural Life
Mixed farms see the most farming fatalities - HSA
Mixed farms are the most dangerous for farm fatalities in Ireland, according to figures from the Health and Safety Authority...
Opinion
Opinion: Farm deaths will continue to happen as long as we think they won't happen to us
This week the farming community has been rocked by three farm deaths within days of each other. Two men died...