Making farm safety a priority with practical advice and top-tips

An issue that should be at the forefront of everyone’s mind is safety. This year the Farm Safety Zone is back at the LAMMA Show and packed full of useful, practical seminars. Alex Heath reports.

Farm safety on agenda

While LAMMA is the UK’s premier machinery showcase, it also offers visitors the opportunity to assess and improve their on-farm safety thanks to the return of the Farm Safety Zone for a third year, sponsored by Safety Revolution.

This year the Farm Safety Zone located in hall 10, stand number 10.816, will address six key themes associated with farm safety; management tools, technical health and safety, safety demonstrations, risk reduction measures, farm support and real people, real stories.

These themes will be explored by well-known farming charities, leading fi gures in the agricultural sector, market-leading risk reduction companies and expert health and safety consultants.

Practical demonstrations around two machines found on farms, as well as tips to keep lone workers safe and useful apps for your smart phone will all be discussed. FARM SAFETY ZONE PROGRAMME

Time Tuesday, January 7

Wednesday, January 8

9.30am Safety Demos: Agrifac sprayer Safety Demos: JCB telehandler Mia Bambury, Safety Revolution, H&S consultant Mia Bambury, Safety Revolution, H&S consultant 10.30am Management Tools: How to keep contractors safe Farm Support: RABI - When accidents happen: Oliver Dale, Safety Revolution, managing director RABI support in a crisis aroline arrison and el ones, regional elfare offi cers 11.30am Risk Reduction: What 3 words - A simple way to Risk Reduction: Lone alert - Lone workers have many

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atrick Arbuthnott, partnership manager Ale ones, fi eld sales e ecutive 12.30pm Management Tools: How to co-ordinate your Real Life, Real People training effectively James Chapman MBE Emily Jones, Safety Revolution training co-ordinator 1.30pm Farm Support: Farm Safety Foundation Technical Health and Safety: Keeping

(Yellow Wellies) CoSHH Simple

Stephanie Berkeley, manager Emily Pain, Safety Revolution, H&S consultant 2.30pm Risk Reduction: Fireward - Managing the risks Management Tools – Panel Discussion:

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Edward Barnes, director Chaired by Oliver Dale, Andrew Robinson, farm manager Heathcote Farms. Andrew Mahon, farm manager, The Bromborough Estate. Other panellists TBC.

3pm Technical H&S: Fire Risk Assessments –

Where to start?

Mia Bambury, Safety Revolution, H&S consultant

ABOUT THE SPONSOR Z

● As sponsor of the Farm Safety Zone, Safety Revolution has created a full speaker programme to provide delegates with knowledge, advice and support on issues surrounding farm safety. Ultimately, the consultants intend to raise awareness, drive home a positive health and safety message and provide information to delegates who know what they need, but are unsure of where they can go for advice they can trust.

Safety Revolution is a specialist consultancy business, providing bespoke health and safety advice for farms, estates and agribusiness across the UK. It provides a comprehensive system that identifi es here business potential liabilities and weaknesses lie in relation to health and safety; and helps them to address those issues in a practical, systemic and sustainable way.

Clients are provided with a safety management system focusing on simple and effective steps to reduce risk, infl uence positive behaviours and ultimately, protect people.

Safety demonstrations around two machines found on farm will be held.

FARM SAFETY ZONE SPEAKERS

MIA BAMBURY Health and safety consultant, Safety Revolution

Safety Revolution consultant Mia Bambury will demonstrate practical safety checks on an Agrifac sprayer and a JCB telehandler over the two days, focusing on daily start-up checks and safe handling.

Ms Bambury will also explain how farmers can manage risk in order to protect livelihoods ith fi re risk assessments. ords for precise location identifi cation through the free app.

Mr Arbuthnott will share how individuals, businesses and emergency services across the UK and beyond, are using what3words to solve the everyday challenges of sharing and fi nding precise locations.

The system is being used to make deliveries easier, businesses simpler to fi nd and to save lives and time in emergency situations across the UK. He will talk about how the system works, how you can use it and stories of the most powerful ways 3 words have been used to solve day to day problems in regions around the country.

STEPHANIE BERKELEY Manager, Farm Safety Foundation

Set up in 2014, the Farm Safety Foundation raises awareness of farm safety among farmers aged 16-40, synonymous with yellow wellies. The foundation runs an education programme where more than 8,500 farmers have been trained in tackling the stigma around risk-taking and poor mental health

Ms Berkeley’s talk will address mental health in agriculture, the key causes and consequences of life changing and life-ending accidents, ask why farm safety matters and explain the key to holding challenging conversations. across the agricultural sector, delivering fast and effective fi re prevention and fi re safety solutions.

The company’s director Edward arnes ill address the risks of fi re, farm fi re statistics and e plain ho farmers can apply preventative techniques to protect against disastrous fi re. e ill also suggest how we can promote positive change and attitudes to fi re ithin the agricultural sector.

Mia Banbury

OLIVER DALE Managing director, Safety Revolution

Managing director Oliver Dale will describe how employers and contractors can better protect themselves and follow safer working practices to minimise risk for both parties.

He says: “Employers are responsible for ensuring contractors are fully competent, ualifi ed, briefed on potential dangerous working environments and made aware of on-site policies and procedures.

“It is essential employers can instruct contractors with peace of mind, confi dence and in the knowledge that they are complying with the law.”

Patrick Arbuthnott Edward Barnes

CAROLINE HARRISON e i n l elf re ffi er f r the Heart of England, RABI

MEL JONES e i n l elf re ffi er f r r h Wales and Shropshire, RABI

Caroline Harrison and Mel Jones will introduce the charity, the work it carries out and describe the support RABI can provide to the agricultural sector when people are injured as a result of accidents both on and offfarm; illustrated with a detailed case study.

Caroline Harrison

ALEX JONES Field sales executive, Lone Alert

Lone Alert is a provider of lone worker protection. It offers a range of lone worker alarms, devices and apps to protect people who work alone, remotely or are vulnerable in their work.

Alex Jones will identify the risks of lone working, explain the company’s Overseeing Working Alone management portal, discuss the available PPE options for lone workers and address the implementation of lone worker protection - what workers and employers should consider and steps they should take to stay safe.

His talk will be supported by a case study on lone worker safety in the rural environment.

EMILY PAIN Health and safety consultant, Safety Revolution

Safety Revolution consultant Emily Pain will explain the importance of CoSHH and how businesses can manage the process effectively.

CoSHH is often overlooked as a legal requirement but is in place to protect from ill health and harm caused by exposure to harmful substances, symptoms of which may take many years to develop. Reducing the risks associated with using substances hazardous to health in the workplace is important but does not need to be complicated, she says.

Alex Jones

Oliver Dale

PATRICK ARBUTHNOTT Partnerships manager, what3words

What3words is a universal address system that has divided the world into 57 trillion, 3m by 3m squares.

Every square has been assigned a uni ue and fi ed combination of three

Stephanie Berkeley

EDWARD BARNES Director, Fireward

Fireward provides Automatic Fire Suppression systems for vehicles, machinery and equipment used

Mel Jones Emily Pain