Health and Safety Courses – All new Lantra Awards Courses launched on 01 March 2016. Lantra Awards have launched and updated a range of Health and Safety Courses covering Construction, Fencing, Agriculture & Horticulture and Forestry. These courses include Safety Awareness, Risk Assessment and Heights is scope to customise these to suit businesses with differing requirements. To emphasise the value …
Working under power cables
A timely reminder from Farmers Weekly on how to react if you catch power cables with agricultural machinery. Read the article HERE . This is also something we deal with in depth on all Forklift, Telehandler and Working at Heights related courses.
Different days, different tractors
Another busy week full of contrasts. Sunday and helping out at The Fighter Collections Flying Legends Air display. driving a tractor Russell Smith Farms kindly supplied to help out to move this 39 tonne Lockheed Constellation. Reversing with a difference! Monday and one of our regulars, a great crowd from Rectory Farm at Milton preparing for their Maze spectacular. …
Latest news from HSE shows a fall in farm fatalities
The latest results in agriculture, forestry and fishing show: 29 fatal injuries to workers, the average over the previous five years was 36. Almost half as many workers were killed in 2012/13p as in 1981 (54), but the average worker fatality rate, over the last five years, is much higher than in any other industry section (RIDDOR); Almost half (41%) …
Govt. updates Working at Heights guidance
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has overhauled its guidance for working at height, setting out in clear, simple terms what to do and what not to do – and debunking common myths that can confuse and mislead employers. Key changes include: providing simple advice about do’s and don’ts when working at height to ensure people are clear on what …