Case studies
Includes cattle handling, children, contact with machinery, dust, electricity, overhead power lines, falls from height, livestock handling system, manual handling, poultry, transport and treework.
Cattle handling
Children
- Training, supervision and failing to assess the risks to young persons[2]
- Child carried as a passenger in a telescopic materials handler and unrestricted access to farm[3]
- Young people working without adequate training or supervision[4]
- Failing to assess the risks to children[5]
- Child working unsupervised[6]
- Children safety (and transport)[7]
- Unsecured heavy objects and children[8]
- Child killed by reversing forklift truck[9]
- Fatal ATV overturn[10]
- Inadequate supervision and no risk assessment[11]
Contact with machinery
- Contractor loses arm on an unguarded PTO shaft[12]
- Unguarded conveyor and supervision of a young person[13]
- Unguarded Power Take Off (PTO) shaft on a potato digger[14]
- Isolation of machines[15]
- Unguarded PTO shafts[16]
- Guard interlocking[17]
- Clearing blockages[18]
- Unguarded power input connector[19]
- Check equipment before use[20]
- Lack of training and risk assessment leads to two deaths[21]
Electricity, overhead power lines
Falls from height
Livestock handling system
Manual handling
Poultry
Transport
- Lone working - gamekeeper found dead following accident on an ATV[40]
- ATVs - Training and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)[41]
- Adequate Seating[42]
- Suitable braking[43]
- Poor visibility[44]
- Unsafe system through lack of training and maintenance of FLT[45]
- Interference with safety equipment[46]
- Lack of training and driver restraining systems[47]
- Lack of formal training and safety helmet[48]
- Unmaintained handbrake[49]
- Poor traffic management[50]
- Maintenance of brakes[51]
- Safety through training and maintenance[52]
- Repairing defects[53]
- Segregating pedestrians from vehicles[54]
- Poor visibility for driver proves fatal[55]
- All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's)[56]
- Employees & visitors need to be made aware of safety rules at visited sites[57]