AIC supports Yellow Wellies' Farm Safety Week 2024
This year's Farm Safety Week (22-26 July) seeks to "reset" how farmers approach farm safety and risk-taking, with the annual campaign led by charity the Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies) and supported by the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC).
While 1% of the population in Great Britain works in farming, 16% of all workplace deaths occur in this industry according to the Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) Fatal Injuries in Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing Report in GB 2022/2023.
A total of 21 farm workers and six members of the public, including a child, lost their lives on farms in Great Britain over the past year.
The Yellow Wellies says these latest statistics show "no drastic improvement [in farm safety] which means that actions and attitudes of those working in the industry need a major rethink".
AIC encourages its Members to support Farm Safety Week by engaging with the campaign and sharing information with farming customers.
Visit the Yellow Wellies website to download a Farm Safety Week 2024 toolkit and find useful resources to share.
Authors
David Moss
Project management and technical projects. Areas include animal feed, feed adviser register, stakeholder management and health & safety. Secretariat for a number of feed sector committees including the UKFFPA (United Kingdom Former Foodstuffs Processors Association).
Oli Hill
As Head of Communications, Oli creates and oversees the content published on AIC's website, emails, Member briefings, print publications, and social media. A qualified multimedia journalist, he previously spent six years working at Farmers Weekly magazine as a Senior Reporter on the arable team, and latterly as Community Editor. More recently he was Communications Manager at Red Tractor.
