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Sat 08 Aug 2009Farmers warned over safety practices
FARMERS WILL be prosecuted for failing to fill in their Farm Safety Code, which is mandatory under health and safety laws, Pat Griffin, senior inspector with the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), has said.
He told the National Seminar on Farm Safety and Health yesterday in Athy, Co Kildare, that a Teagasc survey had found almost two-thirds of farmers had not completed the safety forms that they were obliged to do by law.
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