Next month, a major practical health and safety exhibit will take place as part of the Teagasc National Beef Open Day – Beef 2016- on Tuesday, July 5 at the Research and Innovation Centre, Grange, Co. Meath.
The Health and Safety Exhibit at Beef 2016 will include an accident victim outlining the consequences of his accident and childhood safety, including installing a farm-safe play area.
Livestock housing and handling facilities with particular emphasis on new designs of cow calving and bull housing facilities will also be demonstrated at Beef 2016.
The following will also take place at Beef 2016:
- Safety with PTO covers, machine attachments, chainsaws and ATV’s.
- Legal requirements to implement a risk assessment on farms.
- New legal requirements for farm vehicles and implements used on public roads.
- New legal requirements of pesticide usage including sprayer training and testing.
- Farmers Health, including blood pressure checking by IHF Nurses.
- Embrace Farm Safety will outline the support services they provide.
- Information on the safety components of the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) and Knowledge Transfer (KT) scheme.
- Farm safety with ESB Networks.
- New approaches for ‘safe working at heights’ on farms.
- Slurry gas dangers and preventative approaches.
A new advisory booklet ‘Build in Safety’ to advise farmers of legal and practical aspects of managing construction of farm building, sponsored by FBD Trust, will be launched at Beef 2016.
The Teagasc ‘Beef 2016’ event takes place from 10.30 am to 4pm.