HSE has launched a campaign to help reduce farm vehicle deaths & injuries. The campaign is entitled Work Right Agriculture – Your Farm – Your Future.
Agriculture consistently has the highest number of deaths and injuries of all sectors in Great Britain (per 100,000 workers). HSE wa[...]
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What you could tow before 16 December 2021
Licences issued before 1 January 1997
You are not affected by the changes if you passed your car driving test before 1 January 1997.
You’re usually allowed to drive a vehicle and trailer combination up to 8,250kg maxi[...]
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This year annual NRoSO event has been the subject of much discussion this year due to the number of candidates on the course and concerns on how this year course can be safely delivered with rising numbers of Covid 19.
Following much discussion a decision has been made by the NRoSO Board o[...]
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Farmers and growers across the country are continuing their work to reduce the number of accidents on farm, and for the next few months will be focusing on how they can complete work at height safely.
From October to December, the Farm Safety Partnership (FSP) will be sharing guidance on h[...]
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UK Power networks has partnered with what3words. What3words is a geocoding system for the communication of locations with a resolution of three metres. What3words differs from most other location encoding systems in that it displays three words rather than long strings of numbers or letters. It [...]
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According to the Health and Safety Executives guidance note PM28, there are restrictions on the circumstances in which non-integrated working platforms can be used.
Forklift trucks are primarily intended for lifting materials and not people. However, they can be used with[...]
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From October 2016 the law changed for farmers using professional rodenticides on their premises, for farmers to continuing using & purchased rodenticides farmers had four options available to them they were as follows,
Possession of a certificate from an approved training programm[...]
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