The Farmers’ Union of Wales and FUW Insurance Services Ltd have teamed up with Lantra to bring a special farm safety e-learning course to rural communities.
In 2020-21, 41 people were killed in agriculture and around 12,0001 serious injuries were reported. Every death and injury has devastating and life-changing consequences for individuals, families, businesses, and communities, and nearly all of them are avoidable.
To help address persistently high rates of death and serious injury, Lantra has worked with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to develop training that is affordable and accessible to every farmer. The new Farm Safety e-learning course focuses on the most common causes of farm accidents, such as:
- Falls from heights
- Moving vehicle accidents
- Crushed or trampled by cattle
- Contact with machinery
- Drowning and asphyxiation.
It gives simple practical advice on how to keep yourself and your workforce safe and how to meet your legal responsibilities.
Also, because it’s e-learning you can do the course wherever and whenever it suits you. The course is in bite-sized modules, so you don’t have to do it all at once and when you’ve finished, you’ll get a certificate to prove it.
Both Lantra and HSE have heavily subsidised the development of this course, to make it as affordable as possible.
Everyone thinks “it won’t happen to me”, but if you drive a tractor, ride a quad bike, handle livestock, or operate farm machinery, 12,000 people just like you were killed or seriously injured. They didn’t think it would happen to them.
This training could be all it takes to prevent you or a work colleague from losing an arm, a leg, their eyesight or even their life.
To enrol on to a discounted version of the Agriculture Health and Safety: How to Meet Your Legal Responsibilities e-learning course, which retails for £18.00 +VAT, , against £20.00 +VAT for the standard commercial version, all you need to do is to follow this link: http://elearning.lantra.co.uk/register/94/55
Once you are registered for the course and have paid, you will be sent a confirmation email with details on how to access this course. Occasionally, these emails may be directed to a junk folder, however. Please do not hesitate to get in touch with
The course includes a Welsh language version of the modules.