Help spread positive messages about farm safety to show that the next generation of farmers is taking safety seriously. 

The Farm Safety Foundation will have tips, blogs and invaluable advice guides that it will be sharing. Follow Yellow Wellies on Twitter @yellowwelliesUK and Like and Retweet their content throughout the week using the hashtag #FarmSafetyWeek.  

Farm Safety Curve training

Curve training sessions can be delivered by a YFC trainer registered with NFYFC. Trainers are provided with a training plan and all the resources needed for a fun, informative session within your Club Programme including a certificate of completion. The sessions usually last around one and half hours.

If you would like to become a YFC trainer for your county so you can deliver the training module, find out about the course here.   

Farm Safety Award

We are also encouraging entries to our Farm Safety Award, which is sponsored by The Farm Safety Foundation (Yellow Wellies). If you champion farm safety or have been the lead in ensuring your club members receive farm safety training, then why not enter – or nominate someone you know who is a brilliant ambassador for farm safety? Enter now.  

Top Tips for Staying Safe on the Farm

• You can’t work safely unless you know how to – make sure someone experienced shows you what to do or that you have been properly trained.
• Being hit by a moving vehicle, driven or runaway, is the biggest cause of fatalities. Keep pedestrians and vehicles apart if possible, ensure handbrakes are well maintained and follow ‘safe stop’ procedures (leave the gear in neutral, put on the handbrake and take out the key).
• Roofs are often fragile, even if they don’t look it. Falls from roofs cause several deaths every year. Treat all roofs as fragile and use equipment such as harnesses, coverings and guard rails.
• Riding a quad bike is not the same as riding a motorbike. Make sure that you are trained in the correct techniques and wear a helmet, as most injuries are sustained to the head.
• Livestock can be unpredictable even when you know them well. Using the right equipment and following safe working practices is better than trusting in the good nature of a bull or a cow and calf.
• Don’t forget overhead power lines – many accidents happen because people drive underneath power lines, forgetting that they are working with equipment raised.
• Slurry, effluent and moist grain stores are confined spaces and can all contain high levels of toxic gases – sometimes causing the death of a rescuer as well. You should never enter them unless you have made sure it is safe.