Farming News

As Farm Safety Week 2021 ended on Friday of last week  the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) highlighted the ‘Farm Families Health Check Programme’. The Farm Families Health Checks Programme is funded by DAERA&rsq..

The Health and Safety Executive in Northern Ireland (HSENI) is encouraging everyone to take care when in the countryside. The message comes in support of Farm Safety Week (19-23 July) as a timely reminder to those who work and farm in the countryside..

During Farm Safety Week (19-23 July), HSENI is urging the farming community to use the appropriate equipment for all jobs, as it might just save a life. Figures show that farming has the poorest safety record of any occupation in the UK.  Far t..

During Farm Safety Week (19-23 July) the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) is encouraging the farming community to ‘wake up’ to the issue of tiredness during their daily routines. Tiredness is a normal part of ever..

The farming team had our 1st Visit to the Agricultural Shows for 2019 in series of Farm Safety Promotion days at the Ballymoney Show on Friday 31st May & Saturday 1st June 2019. For Ballymoney show we took a stand within the Trade Marquee. ..

Jimmy Fenton & David Cooke were delighted to welcome Lady Mary Peters to the NI Safety Group stand at last week’s Clogher Valley Agricultural Show. For those that don’t remember Lady Mary won the women's pentathlon gold medal at ..

In recent weeks we have seen three serious incidents involving the mixing of slurry, incidents which very easily could have resulted in fatalities. We are reminding the farming community: DO NOT TAKE ANY CHANCES WHEN MIXING SLURRY!!   Slu..

Exhibiting at an agricultural show is a lot more than just turning up with a pull up stand and a few leaflets. Wendy Beatty, our Farming Safety sub-committee Chair shares her report from the Clogher Valley Show. Download it at the link below. &nbs..

09/08/18 - NI Safety Group exhibiting at Clogher Valley Show. Blessed with great weather we'd many people at our stall at the event. ...read more and check out the photos. 20/7/18 - 10% of Air Ambulance call outs related to farm incidents As ..

One sentence from farmer Gareth Sproule’s daughter was all it took to change his normal practice when mixing slurry from dangerous to safe. So moved was he by this that he posted the message below on Facebook. “Tonight for the first tim..