News

13 April 2018

Information from the Farm Safety Partnership has highlighted that as many as 100 accidents per month happen on Northern Ireland farms which require some form of medical attention. CAFRE in conjunction with NFU Mutual are launching First Aid training ..

12 April 2018

Did you know that in Northern Ireland Bowel Cancer :- is the third most common cancer is the second biggest cancer killer 1,100 people are diagnosed every year 400 people a year die from the disease Yet Bowel cancer is treatable and curable ..

28 March 2018

A man in his 70s has died in an accident involving a cow at a farm in south Armagh. Police say they received a report of the sudden death of a farmer on on the Newry Road in Mullaghbawn on Wednesday. It is not being treated as suspicious. The Heal..

24 March 2018

A Co Armagh company was fined and sentenced (23/3) at Newry Crown Court after failing to provide adequate safety measures on a chain and flight conveyor used to move animal feed from the mixing plant to the bagging area. Mason Animal Feeds Ltd, of M..

15 March 2018

Local organisations joined 10 major employers in pledging to working towards reducing occupational ill health and disease in their organisation at yesterday’s Workplace Health Conference. A packed Titanic Suite listened to a variety of eminent..

14 March 2018

The Workplace Health Leadership Group NI (WHLGNI)  held its inaugural conference, ‘Occupational Health, Hygiene and Wellbeing’ at the Titanic, Belfast yesterday. The conference, which included a comprehensive programme of policy mak..

13 March 2018

Pdf versions of the presentations can be downloaded at the link below. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS   ..

20 February 2018

Industrial Deafness Claims An estimated 80,000 industrial deafness claims were filed in 2014 — causing some insurers to label the injury as the ‘new whiplash’. As an owner or manager of an engineering, construction or manufacturing..

11 February 2018

The Guardian has reported on Safety breaches at UK labs that handle harmful bacteria, viruses and fungi have spread infections to staff and exposed others to potentially lethal diseases. Read their article. ..

11 January 2018

Farming Life have reported that HSENI are investigating an incident on a Dromara farm (06/01) in which a farmer is believed to have been gored by a bull. Read more at: https://www.farminglife.com/farming-news/dromara-farmer-gored-by-bull-1-8318834 ..