Herefordshire Safety Day for Farmers
The Health & Safety Executive are holding an Agricultural Health & Safety Awareness Day on Tuesday 22nd February, at Holme Lacy Campus, Holme Lacy, HR2 6LL.
People are dying in needless accidents on British farms. In the last ten years, 455 people died and many more suffered terrible injuries. Following on from a very successful event back in 2002, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are running a second event for farmers in Herefordshire to be hosted by Herefordshire College of Technology at their Holme Lacy campus on Tuesday 22 February. The event is FREE.
This will be an excellent opportunity for farmers to get practical advice and take action to avoid people being killed, injured or made ill on their farm. There will be six practical demonstrations run over half a day. These sessions are delivered by LANTRA instructors, who have an industry background or are themselves farmers. The demonstrations cover health and safety topics that are the top cause of death and injury in the industry such as transport, falls, livestock handling and machinery maintenance.
As well as these practical demonstrations there will be advice and information available from the College, Herefordshire Rural Hub, IAgSA, First Aid Techniques & Hereford Fire Service.
HSE may be writing to you in the New Year with an invitation to attend either a morning or afternoon session and we would strongly encourage you to make every effort to attend either the morning or afternoon session.
If you do not receive an invitation but would like to attend, there may be places available nearer the time, you can check by emailing Bernie Parry at the Health and Safety Executive on bernie.parry@hse.gsi.gov.uk or contact her on 01905 743600.
