STUDENT FARMER

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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t’s no secret that farm safety is an issue. We’ve 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, it’s not even about showing off, it’s just doing something dangerous because it’s a bit of a shortcut for whatever task you’re 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 ‘by the book’. 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 else’s, 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: “I’m going to make sure that everyone on my farm wears the correct helmets, clothing and has been given the appropriate training.”

S&YFA Zoe Legg added: “I cannot emphasise enough the importance of wearing a helmet. There seems to be a mentality of ‘I haven’t got time’ or ‘the likelihood of having an accident is so slim’.

But accidents can happen to anyone, and recently a helmet saved my life, which really compounded the necessity of them for me.”

September 2021

14/09/2021 11:26:45