Farm safety
COVER STORY
Safety first NFU Student & Young Farmer Ambassadors old and new teamed up with Can-Am this summer to brush up on their farm safety knowledge
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tâs no secret that farm safety is an issue. Weâve all seen the TikToks and the Instagram posts where someone is being reckless around livestock or machinery, just because it might get a few likes. Sometimes, itâs not even about showing off, itâs just doing something dangerous because itâs a bit of a shortcut for whatever task youâre doing. And yet, those who have been unlucky enough to have personal experience of an incident due to a lapse in farm safety, are often now the biggest advocates for doing things âby the bookâ. They know (and deep down we all know) that no amount of time saved or number of comments on social media is worth compromising your, or someone elseâs, health for. Farm safety is something the NFU Student & Young Farmer Ambassadors (S&YFA) are really passionate about. So when Can-Am offered some of our ambassadors the chance to do some ATV rider training with EASI, they jumped at the chance.
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After taking on the training, S&YFA Josie Troop made a pledge to being safe on farm: âIâm going to make sure that everyone on my farm wears the correct helmets, clothing and has been given the appropriate training.â S&YFA Zoe Legg added: âI cannot emphasise enough the importance of wearing a helmet. There seems to be a mentality of âI havenât got timeâ or âthe likelihood of having an accident is so slimâ. But accidents can happen to anyone, and recently a helmet saved my life, which really compounded the necessity of them for me.â
September 2021
14/09/2021 11:26:45