Rural Life
Farm safety experts have highlighted the importance of farmers learning from each other in the fight to reduce farm fatalities and dangers.
'Safe Farming in Challenging Times' is the theme at the National Conference on Farm Safety and Health, with changing mind-set a key aspect.
The HSA National Farm Safety Conference kicked off in Carlow this morning with national and international experts giving talks throughout.
The National Conference on Farm Safety and Health is being held by the HSA this Friday (October 26) in Co. Carlow.
Audible gasps from the crowd at a conference on farm safety could be heard as one man detailed how he recently fell into a slurry tank.
Attendees at a conference on farm safety were posed with the question 'are the lives of farmers less important than others in society?'.
