Rural Life
HSA sets 'initial target' of 2,000 farm inspections this year
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will inspect 2,000 farms as its initial target over the course of 2018 –...
Rural Life
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) will inspect 2,000 farms as its initial target over the course of 2018 –...
N.Ireland
Approximately 2,000 people have signed an online petition calling for the slurry ban to be scrapped in Northern Ireland. The...
Rural Life
Farming once again accounted for over half of deaths recorded in the Health and Safety Authority’s (HSA’s) recent figures on...
N.Ireland
A farmer in Co. Down is recovering from head injuries sustained when he was attacked by a bull on Saturday,...
Agri-Business
The founder of AgriKids, a safety educational platform for children, has called for the establishment of a farm safety authority....
Rural Life
Audible gasps from the crowd at the National Conference on Farm Safety and Health could be heard as one man...
Rural Life
Those in attendance at the National Conference on Farm Safety and Health were posed with the question ‘are the lives...
Rural Life
The National Conference on Farm Safety and Health was hosted today by the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) and Teagasc,...
Rural Life
Farmers, agricultural contractors, agricultural advisors or trainers, along with anyone with an interest in safety and health are welcome to...
N.Ireland
A Co. Tyrone farmer has been fined £1,000 (€1,138) today, after a slurry accident saw a teenage casual employee fall unconscious...
Rural Life
A practical Farm Safety half-day event is being run in a joint effort between Teagasc and the Health and Safety...
N.Ireland
This time last year, one Tyrone family’s lives changed forever when dairy farmer Alistair Sloss was killed in a farm...
N.Ireland
Two Co. Tyrone farmers have been hospitalised, and three animals have died, in a slurry accident just hours before this...
Rural Life
Award-winning Aherla, Co. Cork based dairy farmer, Peter Hynes, is calling on the departments of agriculture and education to collaborate...
Rural Life
A greater effort is needed by the government to help promote farm safety across the country, according to Fianna Fail’s...
Rural Life
Mandatory farm safety inspections “cannot be taken off the table”, Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has cautioned. Over the last...
Rural Life
The body of a man killed in an accident on a farm in Co. Cork has been recovered. The man...
Rural Life
Once again, farmers have been pleaded with to keep safety in mind when carrying out their work by the Minister...