Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its cows and instead charge visitors to cuddle them.
Farmers have been spared from having to appoint health and safety representatives. Under the rules workplaces must appoint a staff member to make sure bosses follow the rules. This will include all those with more than 25 employees, and workplaces with fewer than 25 employees that are deemed “high risk”- most farm-based workplaces have been excluded.
With challenging times facing the dairy industry, the last thing farmers needed was to worry about another business cost and more paperwork.
