Farmsafe training
Dave Gratton
New Zealand Tree
Grower May 2005
OSH
and ACC statistics tell us that farming, forestry, fishing and
construction are the major industries with the highest death and injury
statistics in New Zealand.
Agriculture statistics show that eleven farmers are seriously injured
every day, with one farmer being killed every two weeks.
When
you add the agriculture and forestry potential for harm to our farm
forestry activities, then you realise the injury potential we face each
and every day.
Farmsafe awareness
Farmsafe awareness is the
foundation programme, designed to heighten your awareness of injury
prevention and help make your farm a safer place. The one-day workshop
will give you practical advice on common injuries and what can be done
to avoid them.
The programme includes identifying potential dangers
involving animals, machinery, slips and trips. By identifying and
addressing potential hazards, the course will help you to develop an
action plan to address them.
The Farmsafe course is free and lunch is provided.
We must improve
At
industry health and safety meetings, the view of OSH is that people
with formal qualifications are deemed to be competent, and unqualified
people are therefore deemed to be incompetent. Your representative at
these meetings has countered this reasoning. They say that some people
with written qualifications are hopeless in the actual workplace, while
farm foresters who may have no formal qualifications but do have
enormous practical experience in what they do, are therefore more than
competent in the job.
We all must improve ourselves in our business,
and completing a Farmsafe workshop is an excellent way to start. Get
together with farm forestry friends and help each other in attending
this one-day workshop. For more information go to the Farmsafe
Awareness website.
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