Displaying items by tag: Health and Safety

Farmers spend many hours planning their lives around the farming year, but often health and safety is left out.

A Gore farm machinery company’s shoddy repairs to a tractor have landed it with a fine of $239,063 and reparations of $103,459 awarded to an injured farm worker.

Farmers must accept individual responsibility for the industry’s poor health and safety record, says an industry health and safety leader.

Chemicals and fuels stored or used incorrectly onfarm can have dangerous consequences.

Maternal aggression may be behind many attacks on humans by cows, say two overseas animal experts.

A Wellsford farmer was fined $70,000 and ordered to pay $130,000 in reparation for the death of a worker driving a tractor.

The response to a Northland burn-off that got out of control cost $20,000 to $50,000, involving two helicopters and volunteers from four local areas.

Onfarm injuries are at their highest in the beginning of spring — here's how you can prevent them.

Federated Farmers is extending its “deepest sympathy” to the family of a four-year-old boy found dead in a farm effluent pond near Harihari in south Westland.

When the Health and Safety at Work Act (HASWA) came into force two years ago there were misgivings and nervousness in the rural sector.