Health and safety tips for farmers during springtime
As spring’s workload looms, farmers should take care to reduce potential injury risk or even death. Teagasc’s Health and Safety specialists, Francis Bligh and John McNamara, have compiled some suggestions for keeping safe at calving time, and when handling slurry and doing machinery activities. Pay particular attention to avoiding tractor knockdown or crush injuries, or getting attacked by a cow with a newborn calf during the coming months. Safety around…