Mole Valley Farmers backs plea for farm safety

Mole Valley Farmers is proud to support this year’s Farm Safety Week which takes place from 18 – 22 July.

The Farm Safety Foundation – or Yellow Wellies as they are known – are holding their tenth annual Farm Safety Week, a campaign which brings together five countries over five days with one simple goal - to encourage everyone in the industry to make our farms safer places to live and to work.

Ten years on from the first Farm Safety Week, agriculture still has the poorest safety record of any occupation in the UK and Ireland.

To mark the start of this year’s campaign, the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) will share their annual Fatal Injuries in Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing in GB report 2021/22.

The Farm Safety Foundation will use these figures to reflect on what has been achieved over the past decade and highlight how much there is to do to improve the poor safety record of our industry.

Lorna Filby, Head of Safety and Wellbeing at Mole Valley Farmers said: “We are proud to support the annual Farm Safety Week campaign, especially as it aligns with our own ‘Take A Moment’ work. As an industry leader and farmer-owned company, we are in a unique position to make a real difference and influence cultural change within the agricultural sector by helping to improve safe working practice on farms.

A large campaign such as Farm Safety Week can really draw attention to, and reduce the injury risk that farmers and farm workers face on a daily basis. When many voices join together to drive a change, this is when it can happen. Farm Safety Week is important for this focus, but the truth is that we should all try our best to take a moment to consider our own safety and that of others on farms every day of the year, not just during Farm Safety Week.”

For more information on ‘Farm Safety Week’ visit www.yellowwellies.org or follow @yellowwelliesUK on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram.

For more guidance on health and safety in agriculture, please visit https://www.moleonline.com/takeamoment