Krone UK has offered advice to farmers, urging them to ‘stay sharp’ on safety during harvest and recommend completing machinery checks and ‘thinking twice’ before completing…
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Despite small improvements made to rural connectivity in the last year, mobile signal and broadband speeds are still not adequate for farming businesses, the NFU’s Digital…
Farmers are being urged to check for potentially dangerous gases after reports of yellow or brown fumes coming from silage pits. Nitrous oxide is one of…
A social media safety campaign is to be launched by the National Association of Agricultural Contractors (NAAC) to promote the importance of wearing a helmet. Farmers…
A new survey by LSBUD, the leading online safe digging resource, has found that 67% of UK agricultural workers know someone that has struck an underground…
Fencing contractor Elliott’s footage went viral in June 2022 when his post knocker hit an underground gas pipeline on a farm in Derbyshire. He has now…
The Health Hub at Midlands Machinery Show urged farmers to look after their health and safety, with demonstrations of what to do if they are involved…
Practical emergency first aid demonstrations will take place on both days of the Midlands Machinery Show, in a bid to tackle farming’s alarming safety record. “Someone…
The Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) has released its report into the collision between a train and agricultural equipment at Kisby user-worked crossing, Cambridgeshire, on the…
Farmers need to make health and safety more of a priority to prevent serious accidents and injuries as the industry continues to have the highest rate…