Welcome to Strutt & Parker’s Farm Research Group Health & Safety Update

The quarterly health & safety Update is designed to make you think about health & safety matters on your farm and/or estate. Health & safety is a vital part of any business operation.

The New Year is a time when many people make New Year’s resolutions, this year that could include rethinking how health & safety is implemented on your farm or estate. Health & safety includes the consideration of employees personal health as well as their safety in their place of work. A recent survey by the British Heart Foundation found that those in primary industries, including agriculture had the second highest level of ill health, with one in ten people suffering from poor health and one in six of the health problems being heart related and circulation problems.

2012/13 saw 29 fatal injuries to agricultural workers down from 35 in 2011/12. This rate on a percentage of persons employed in agriculture remains higher than any other industry, 8.8 per 100,000 workers. Of those that were fatally injured, 41% were farmers and 17% were farm workers. It is vitally important that we all strive to reduce this number and the terrible impact it has on the immediate family and close friends, as well as the close knit agricultural community.

For further assistance or information on these or any other issues please call your nearest Strutt & Parker office.

View the full Strutt & Parker Farm Research Group Health & Safety Update Spring 2014.