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
- Child carried as a passenger in a telescopic materials handler and unrestricted access to farm
- Young people working without adequate training or supervision
- Failing to assess the risks to children
- Child working unsupervised
- Children safety (and transport)
- Unsecured heavy objects and children
- Child killed by reversing forklift truck
- Fatal ATV overturn
- Inadequate supervision and no risk assessment
Contact with machinery
- Contractor loses arm on an unguarded PTO shaft
- Unguarded conveyor and supervision of a young person
- Unguarded Power Take Off (PTO) shaft on a potato digger
- Isolation of machines
- Unguarded PTO shafts
- Guard interlocking
- Clearing blockages
- Unguarded power input connector
- Check equipment before use
- Lack of training and risk assessment leads to two deaths
Electricity, overhead power lines
Falls from height
Livestock handling system
Manual handling
Poultry
Transport
- Lone working - gamekeeper found dead following accident on an ATV
- ATVs - Training and the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Adequate Seating
- Suitable braking
- Poor visibility
- Unsafe system through lack of training and maintenance of FLT
- Interference with safety equipment
- Lack of training and driver restraining systems
- Lack of formal training and safety helmet
- Unmaintained handbrake
- Poor traffic management
- Maintenance of brakes
- Safety through training and maintenance
- Repairing defects
- Segregating pedestrians from vehicles
- Poor visibility for driver proves fatal
- All Terrain Vehicles (ATV's)
- Employees & visitors need to be made aware of safety rules at visited sites