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Agriculture topics

These pages cover the main causes of injury and illness. Each topic provides information and advice to help improve health and safety on your farm.

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• Workplace transport
• Preventing falls
• Machinery
• Poultry dust

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Free demonstrations

Safety and Health Awareness Days (SHADs) are practical demonstrations on the everyday hazards that farmers face.

SHADs provide an excellent opportunity for farmers to get practical advice and take action to avoid people being killed, injured or made ill on their farm.

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Latest articles

• E.coli O157: Health Alert
  Avoiding ill health at open farms
• Safety alert
  Rotating arm bale wrappers
• Cattle and public access
  Information and advice.

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Resources

• Farmwise
  Simple guide to farm safety and health
• Farm self-assessment software
• Case studies
  Lessons to be learnt

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• Agriculture topics
  • Workplace transport
  • Machinery
  • Maintenance work - machinery & equipment
  • Preventing falls
  • Livestock
  • Electricity
  • Children & public safety
  • Building work
  • Workplace safety & welfare
  • Controlling exposure
  • Poultry dust
  • Health problems in agriculture
  • Pesticides & veterinary medicines
  • Manual handling
  • Personal protective equipment
  • Noise
  • Vibration
  • Working in GB from overseas
  • Risk assessment
  • Treework topic
• Resources
  • About health & safety in agriculture
  • Campaigns - agriculture
  • Case studies
    • Transport
    • Falls from height
    • Children
    • Machinery case studies
    • Electricity, overhead power lines
    • Treework case studies
  • COSHH Essentials
    • Advice for managers
    • Harvesting grain & seed crops
    • Grain & seed transfer
    • Animal feeds
    • Feeding pigs & poultry
    • Seed cleaning
    • Opening hay & silage bales
    • Composting
    • Mushroom harvesting
    • Straw chopping & blowing
    • Clearing poultry litter
    • Cleaning stores, sheds & silos
    • Poultry catching
    • Cleaning & grading bulbs etc
  • Farm self-assessment software
    • System requirements
    • Instructions
    • Tips on best use
    • Why self-assessment?
    • Background
    • On CD Rom
    • Help us improve the software
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  • Research
  • Fatal injuries in farming etc reports
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