IN an effort to reduce the number of farm workers killed and injured each year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is holding a Safety Awareness Day.
Self-employed and family farmers from Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire, who may have had little contact with the Health and Safety Executive in recent years, have been invited to attend the event in Leominster on Wednesday, June 29.
HSE's head of operations Greg Bungay said: "Agriculture continues to be one of the most hazardous industries to work in, with a fatal injury rate that is one of the highest of any sector.
"On average over the last 10 years, almost one person a week has been killed as a direct result of agricultural work.
"But, whereas the number of fatal accidents for employees is decreasing, that for the self-employed is going up, with almost three times more self-employed workers than staff killed last year."
For more information about the awareness day, log on to www.hse.gov.uk
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