Posts Tagged ‘Farm safety’

Celebrating 5 Years in Business!

We are celebrating 5 years in Business this month! Safety Wise Advice Services was established by Geraldine McGovern in January 2006 and has gone from strength to strength. In those years we have worked with a wide variety of Organisations in various S…

Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurances

Accidents at work resulting in a fatality must be telephoned to the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) in the Republic of Ireland or the Health and Safety Executive NI (HSENI) Northern Ireland immediately. A person not being able to carry out their norm…

Plastic Surgeon warns Farmers on Farm Injuries

Speaking at the National Farm Health and Safety Conference in Athy, Co Kildare held on Wednesday 18th August, Dr. Anne Collins, a specialist plastic surgery registrar, presented a graphic account of the gruesome consequences of farm injuries and advise…

HSENI Advice Document on Slurry Spreading

The HSENI have published an advice Document on Slurry Spreading. The Document details how to manage the gas hazard and physical hazard i.e. use of equipment. It is worth noting that absence of smell is not a guide to the absence of gas as the sense of …