Farmers told to improve health and safety

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Farmers told to improve health and safety British farmers should make health and safety their "top priority", following this week's introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter Act.

The new legislation places more responsibility on businesses to protect workers from work-related risk - failure to do so could result in businesses being publicly named and shamed and fined up to ten per cent of their turnover, Farmers Weekly Interactive reports.

Tim Price, spokesman for NUF Mutual, says that farmers, who have not placed emphasis on safety in the past should be concerned by the new legislation.

"The act makes it easier for prosecutions, not just for people at the top of the company but now people at other levels of the organisation. And the act can affect all areas of agricultural business," he comments.

According to government statistics, 241 employees have died as a result of work-related accidents in the last year.



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