Agriculture
Farm Safety – Health and Safety Regulations
From Peter Main Although agriculture is considered to be a different area to most other types of businesses, the are still a number of health and safety regulations in force. These will often differ from standard industrial regulations or orders, but are designed to have the same effect, to maximise the well-being and safety of…
Read MoreFarm Safety and the Need for Insurance
From Peter Main The issue of insurance, and the role of insurance companies, is a very important one in the context of safety for farms and agricultural businesses. Farms present a special difficulty for insurance companies because they are normally a mix of home and business. Most insurance companies will delineate specifically between home and…
Read MoreFarm Safety – Workplace Activity Factors
From Peter Main The nature of farming generates a number of areas of workplace activities that can be inherently more risky than similar activities undertaken in an office or factory environment. Work hours The length of hours that someone works on a farm is normally considerably more than those generated by someone working elsewhere. The…
Read MoreFarm Safety – Social, Economic and Political Factors
From Peter Main Farm safety – social economic and political factors The nature of working on a farm and on safety is to an extent conditioned by the fact that farming is often seen as a way of life, rather than as a formal occupation or job. In many ways this is true, although not…
Read MoreFarm Safety – Personal Factors
From Peter Main There are a number of significant factors concerning the type of family and workforce that can affect safety on a farm. Children and young people A farm environment is often a family environment as well, meaning that children and young people are actively involved. They may be involved in doing the actual…
Read MoreFarm Safety – Environmental Factors
From Peter Main Environmental factors are different from the environment itself, but do to an extent overlap. When considering farm safety, the environment itself in terms of the nature of the land and the type of produce grown or reared is really important. Following on from that, there are a number of environmental factors that…
Read MorePrinciples of Farm Safety – Environment
From Peter Main When thinking in terms of any type of health and safety work or issues, the term environment is perhaps one of the key elements. The type of environment that someone works in will to a large extent determine the nature of risk that may affect any aspect of their well-being or safety.…
Read MoreHow to Choose the Right Tractor
From Peter Main Most people assume they know what a tractor is, and what it is used for, based largely on historical and stereotypical images of someone ploughing a field, using a tractor. Whilst this is true to a large extent, the extent and range of tractors in today’s world means that they can be…
Read MoreWhat Is the Issue About Grey Market Tractors?
From Peter Main Grey market tractors are often talked about, or written about,in slightly hushed tones, as if there was something slightly under the table or under the counter about them. They also talked about often in very unpatriotic terms, as if someone buying them is undercutting people’s jobs and livelihoods in their own country.…
Read MoreHow LED Lighting Is Changing Farming
From Lydia Quinn In many places areas around the world, LED is changing how farming is done. In Japan, there are restaurants which grow their own fresh greens indoors using LED grow lights. In the US, there are farms which grow greens exclusively indoors using LED lamps. Greens grown with LED lights are said to…
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