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Latest Publications
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2025
Farm Safety During Lambing
While physical risks of injury from sheep may be lower than livestock, health risks may be greater especially with musculoskeletal disorders and contracting zoonotic diseases.
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2025
How to Make Construction Appointments for Your Farm - Guidance
This guide highlights some of the legal responsibilities of farmers (as a client) when they plan to carry out construction work on their farm or in their home.
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2025
Farmers’ Health and Wellbeing
This guide is about looking after yourself so you can continue to enjoy life and farming for a long time to come. It gives you simple tips to stay healthy and well such as being more physically active, eating a healthy diet, and minding your mental health. Small changes over time can make a big difference.
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2025
Farm Safety Action Plan 2021-2024
The new plan (2021–2024) focuses on safety critical areas and aims to continue actions and build on the achievements of the previous plan.
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2025
A Review of Work-Related Fatalities in Agriculture in Ireland 2011-2020
This report focuses on the characteristics of the 208 work-related fatalities in Agriculture, and is based on comprehensive data on all work-related incidents that resulted in a fatality.
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2025
Safety for Seasonal Workers in Horticulture
These guidelines will serve as a useful resource for those non-Irish national employees, but also for everyone in the industry, whether self-employed, an employer or an employee.
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2025
Confined Spaces in Agriculture - Steps to Manage the Risks
This publication illustrates the types of confined spaces that can be found on farms where you work. Confined spaces are areas large enough for a worker to enter and perform work and have a limited or restricted means of entry or exit.
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2025
Safe use of Quad Bikes in Agriculture and Forestry
This information sheet provides advice and guidance on the safe use of quad bikes. The guidance is no substitute for formal training and we recommend that quad bike operators undertake formal training in advance of quad bike or all-terrain vehicle (ATV) use.
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2025
Quad Bike Safety Update
Quad bike fatalities represented 19% of all farm vehicle fatalities during this period. 75% of those that suffered fatal quad bike accidents were aged 60 years or older.
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2025
Reducing the Risk of Back Injuries on the Farm
Farmers should be aware that some aspects of this physical work involve a risk of musculoskeletal injury, particularly back injury.