Rural Life
Paramedic students at University College Cork (UCC) have completed a dedicated course on responding to injuries in agricultural settings.
N.Ireland
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has launched its annual calendar aiming to promote farm safety to children.
Farm deaths relating to slurry and water incidents account for 10% of all farm fatalities, according to new safety advice from Teagasc.
A fundraising campaign has been established in west Waterford for the procurement of a new state-of-the-art critical emergency medical...
Agri-Business
No helmet was in use in half of the quad-bike accidents recorded over a six-year period in Ireland, according to a recently published study.
Using the information on work-place safety in other industries could be helpful to the agriculture sector and increase farm safety.
An online interactive risk-assessment tool to efficiently support farm safety has been officially launched by European social partners.
An Armagh woman has produced a range of Christmas cards to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance. Read on...
The Farm Family Draw has been established to ensure that farm families receive the support they...
Stress and fatigue have been identified as a key cause of agricultural accidents by researchers from the University of Aberdeen.
A TD has raised concerns over transporting rural people to trauma centres in the case of farm accidents or road collisions.
The Irish Community Rapid Response (ICRR) Air Ambulance was tasked to 46 farming accidents last year - amounting to almost one a week.
Minister of State with special responsibility for farm safety Martin Heydon has outlined his top three farm safety tips for 2021.
TD Pádraig O'Sullivan has called on the Department of Health to accede to requests made by consultants in the south of the country.
After Aengus Mannion became involved in a serious farm accident his main focus was to return to the job he loved...and to walk again.
When Diane Banville’s husband Kevin (33) died in a farm accident on St. Patrick’s Day 2014 her whole life changed 'in a split second'.
When a mother’s five-year-old son tells her he wants to tell his daddy all about his first day at school she will honour that request.
Diane Banville lost her husband Kevin in a farm accident on St. Patrick’s Day 2014 - it is a day she will never forget.
A tragic crush accident in Co. Clare last year, which took one man's life, could have taken another if not for a lucky escape.
The financial fall-out of farm accidents was highlighted at a farm accident survivors' conference hosted by EmbraceFARM in Portlaoise.
Embrace FARM will hold a farm accident survivors' conference in Portlaoise, on Saturday, November 25 from 12 noon to 3:30pm
Farmers are more likely to be killed on-farm than on the roads, according to Eddie Wall, an inspector with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA).
Dairy
The Irish dairy industry needs to look at innovative ways to address labour shortages, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Michael Creed.
