| Morning Session | ||||
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| 9.45 – 10.00 | Arrival – tea / coffee | |||
| 1 | 10.00 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | Chair | |
| 2 | Agree minutes of meeting held on 2 May 2007 | Chair/Members | Minutes | |
| 3 | Matters arising: | Chair | ||
| (a) | AIAC Work plan review (including report back on HSC paper HSC-07-60 – Tackling Health and Safety in Agriculture: Future Direction. | Chair | ||
| (b) | Lessons learned from HSE Better Backs 2006 campaign | Chair | AIAC paper 071001 | |
| (c) | Review of MSD in agriculture and the way forward | Chair | AIAC paper 071002 | |
| (d) | Development of VQs in agriculture – update paper 1 | Chair | AIAC paper 071003 | |
| (e) | Agriculture SHAD Programme 2007-08 | Alan Plom | AIAC paper 071004 | |
| 4 | Report back from AFAG and AIAC Project Groups | Project Group Leaders | ||
| (a) | AFAG | Roger Nourish | AIAC paper 071005 | |
| (b) | Transport Project Group | Alan Plom | AIAC paper 071006 | |
| (c) | Casual, Temporary & Migrant Workers | Madge Moore | AIAC paper 071007 | |
| (d) | Child Safety Working Group | Andrew Clark | AIAC paper 071008 | |
| (e) | Worker involvement and safety Reps | Graeme Walker | AIAC paper 071009 | |
| 5 | Insurance Project Update | Roger Nourish | ||
| 12.30 – 13.15 | Lunch | |||
| Afternoon Session | ||||
| 6 | 13.15 – 13.45 | Agriculture in Scotland | Stewart Campbell | Presentation pr6 [442KB] |
| (a) | Partnership on Health and Safety in Scotland (PHASS) | Stewart Campbell | Presentation pr6a [4.4MB] |
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| (b) | 13.45 – 14.00 | Healthy Working Lives | Brian Cherrie | |
| (c) | 14.00 – 14.15 | Health and safety priorities for the forestry industry | Emily Ramsey | Presentation pr6c [3.1MB] |
| (d) | 14.15 – 14.30 | Health and Safety priorities for the Aquaculture industry | Russell Ferguson Bob Wilson |
Presentation pr6d [790KB] |
| 7 | 14.30 – 14.45 | Agriculture Statistics Update | Roger Nourish | |
| 8 | 14.45 – 15.00 | Agriculture: a changing industry | Andrew Clark | Presentation pr8 [403KB] |
| 9 | 15.00 | Other business and closing remarks | Chair | |
| 15.15 | Tea and depart | Chair | ||
| Summary of actions from meeting on 2 May 2007 | |||
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| 3.2 | Alastair Mitchell to contact AIAC members (TGWU, IoSH, Lantra and NFU) and form a MSD working group. | Alastair Mitchell | See agenda item 3 (c) |
| 3.4 | Michael Britten, NFU to keep members informed of developments in Europe. | Michael Britten | |
| 3.5 | Chair to contact MSD Programme Manager and forward a ‘lessons learned’ report. | Chair | See agenda item 3 (b) |
| 3.7 | HSE to provide statistical data on the size of the problem in the industry so that NFU can estimate the cost to agriculture. | AIAC Secretary | Outstanding. To be actioned in November |
| 3.10 | Roger Nourish to make contact with individual insurance companies and invite CMi to the next AIAC meeting. | Roger Nourish | See agenda item 6 |
| 3.11 | Alan Plom to post a copy of the article published in HSE’s internal magazine on the AIAC webpage. | Alan Plom | Discharged |
| 4.2 (iv) | Alan Plom to forward preliminary findings on exposure to pesticides during planting operations to Andrew Clarke (NFU) and Charlie Clutterbuck (TGWU), and any available information on lone working to Chris Kaufman. | Alan Plom | Discussed at AFAG under a formal paper. Some corrections to be made prior to distribution to NFU and TGWU. |
| 4.8 | Alan Plom to liaise with ACPO via Andy Freeman (HSE) on training police officers to deal with defective tractors on public highway. | Alan Plom | Discussed with Andy Freeman. Partly discharged - awaiting steer from HSE. |
| 4.10 | Alan Plom to report back rail issues to AIAC committee. | Alan Plom | To be raised at transport group. |
| 4.11 | Alan Plom to circulate Farmers Weekly Academy article and identify or produce a tractor checklist for NFU and IoSH. | Alan Plom | Discharged |
| 4.21 | HSE to help NFU develop a child safety resource pack for farmers. | Bernadine Cooney | See agenda item 4 (d) |
| 5.4 | Alastair Mitchell to monitor uptake of VQs and report back findings to AIAC. | Alastair Mitchell | See agenda item 3 (d) |
| 6.1 | HSE to update work plan and record progress made. | AIAC Secretary | See item agenda 3 (a) |
| 6.5 | HSE and NFU to produce a paper on the changing industry. | HSE / Andrew Clark | See agenda item 9 |
| 9.1 | HSE to send a URL link to the consultation webpage on the proposed merger of HSC/HSE. | AIAC Secretary | Discharged |
| 9.3 | Chair to submit David’s nomination to AIAC for DCE approval. | Chair | Discharged |
