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25/01/2012
HSENI To Help Stop Carnage On Farms
The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is launching a Help initiative which will focus its attention of farm safety.
Each month last year a farmer was killed while working on a farm.
During February and March the initiative will entail HSENI staff visiting farms and speaking directly with farmers and their families about how the HSENI can ensure their safety and help prevent injury and death.
Ken Logan, Acting Deputy Chief Executive, speaking directly to farmers said: "With the full support of the DARD and UFU, HSENI staff will be visiting your farm in order to discuss the dangers that you and your families face on a daily basis.
"Given that most Northern Ireland farms are worked by one or two people, this is a very personal message to you. Safety must be your number one priority as it is likely to be you or another family member who gets injured or killed. This Help Initiative will provide you with an opportunity to ask questions and seek advice from my colleagues. Please co-operate and help make our farms safer."
(CD/GK)
Each month last year a farmer was killed while working on a farm.
During February and March the initiative will entail HSENI staff visiting farms and speaking directly with farmers and their families about how the HSENI can ensure their safety and help prevent injury and death.
Ken Logan, Acting Deputy Chief Executive, speaking directly to farmers said: "With the full support of the DARD and UFU, HSENI staff will be visiting your farm in order to discuss the dangers that you and your families face on a daily basis.
"Given that most Northern Ireland farms are worked by one or two people, this is a very personal message to you. Safety must be your number one priority as it is likely to be you or another family member who gets injured or killed. This Help Initiative will provide you with an opportunity to ask questions and seek advice from my colleagues. Please co-operate and help make our farms safer."
(CD/GK)
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