Updated 2023 Code of Practice for safe animal feed delivery goes online
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has revised the AIC Code of Practice for Making Safe Deliveries of Animal Feed to Farms to an online version that can be found on the AIC website.
The code, endorsed by the Farm Safety Partnership, was originally developed in support of a UK-wide feed industry initiative started in 2012 with the objective of securing significant improvements in the safety of delivery drivers who are working for, or on behalf of, animal feed companies.
The Farm Safety Partnership is a collaboration of organisations including National Farmers Union (NFU), NFU Mutual, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), and the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) with a responsibility to show industry leadership by promoting safe systems of work within all sectors of agriculture.
AIC Technical Manager David Moss said: “The updated Code of Practice is designed to give advice to farmers, feed manufacturers and feed merchants, on safe deliveries to the farm and is primarily targeted at deliveries of animal feed products.
"However any delivery made to a farm customer’s premises should be planned to ensure that, following a risk assessment of the site, which includes consideration of the product being delivered, the vehicle to be used, and the manufacturers product safety information, a safe system of work is implemented to manage the delivery."
According to HSE, the agricultural sector has the worst fatal accident rate of any major industrial sector. The UK animal feed industry is committed to playing its part in helping to reduce this unacceptable situation.
“With fewer people present on farms, delivery drivers are often working alone making deliveries out of normal working hours,” adds Mr Moss.
“As an industry, we need to do everything we can to ensure anyone working on farms are doing so in as safe a way as possible and this code of practice provides a well-tested blueprint to ensure risk is managed in a sensible way."
The code is easy to follow and provides clear areas for consideration and action covering all types of deliveries to farm:
- Planning for Feed Product Deliveries
- Basic Requirements applying to any Delivery
- All Bulk Deliveries
- Bulk Blown Deliveries
- Bulk Liquid Deliveries
- Packaged Deliveries
“The code supports the UK wide initiative of the Farm Safety Partnership and I’m delighted to say that it is now accessible through the AIC website", concludes Mr Moss.
For further information or any questions, please contact AIC Technical Manager David Moss at [email protected].
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About AIC
AIC is the UK trade association representing the agricultural supply chain sectors of Arable Marketing, Crop Protection and Agronomy, Feed, Fertiliser and Seeds, since its inception in 2003. In all, AIC represents members responsible for some £9 billion of farm trade.
A significant part of its work is political lobbying and influencing as well as supporting members with technical information.
AIC Services, which is the professional services arm of AIC manages a range of services, including Assurance Schemes recognised by UK government as essential tools to underpin feed & food safety alongside fertiliser security. Currently these include:
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TASCC |
Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops |
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FEMAS |
Feed Materials Assurance Scheme |
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UFAS |
Universal Feed Assurance Scheme |
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ESTA |
European Seed Treatment Assurance |
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FIAS |
Fertiliser Industry Assurance Scheme |
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FAR |
Feed Adviser Register |
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RED |
Renewable Energy Directive |
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FAAG |
Forage Analysis Assurance Group |
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APOCS |
AIC Services Palm Oil Credit Scheme |
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Authors
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.
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).