Nenagh CBS students online farm safety video
St Joseph’s CBS, Nenagh, are continuing their Open Your Eyes to Farm Safety campaign with the much-anticipated release of their farm safety video this week.
This video is being released in conjunction with Embrace Farm, the Health & Safety Authority and The IFA. Five Transition Year students - Patrick Quigley, Jack Gleeson, Paul Seymour, Micháel Ryan and Patrick Fogarty, along with their teacher, Paul Butler - have created a video that displays practical solutions to potential risks and dangers on farms. They also go through ‘The Farm Safety Code of Practice Risk Assessment Document’, published and issued by the HSA, and highlight points made in it in a more visual manner.
This video has been warmly welcomed by the HSA, which is planning to launch it through their Education Department and send it to all secondary schools in Ireland in September, where it can be used as part of the Health & Safety module in the Ag Science programme. There are also plans underway to set up a Risk and Safety Awareness competition in conjunction with the school’s video.
This is being sponsored by the IFA with generous financial prizes to be won. Details of this will follow shortly, so keep an eye out for those. Gareth Gault, AKA Donkey of Grassmen, who attended the school’s very successful Tractor Run last November, is hugely impressed with the students' efforts to highlight farm safety and is supporting their Open Your Eyes to Farm Safety video online through his hugely popular Facebook page, 'Grassmen'.
This campaign started last year after Peter Gohery (farm accident survivor) gave his annual passionate presentation to the students and highlighted the work of Embrace Farm. The tractor run, held by the school in November, not only raised great awareness on the issue but also €7,000 for Embrace Farm, which was presented to the charity at a well-attended public talk in the school last December.
The school’s links with Peter and Embrace Farm have gone from strength to strength in the last number of years. Our hopes are that this video will create a farm safety culture amongst farmers, especially young farmers, at a time when the number of accidents and deaths on farms in Ireland is rising dramatically.
People can view the tractor run footage video currently on the school’s social platforms; Nenagh CBS Past Pupils and Staff on Facebook, @CBSNenagh and by looking at ‘Nenagh CBS Farm Safety Tractor Run in aid of EmbraceFARM’ on You Tube.
The students' farm safety video is being released online this week by Agriland and can be viewed on Agriland.ie and on all their social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter @AgrilandIreland. It can also be found on all of the school’s social media platforms as listed above. The school would be delighted if people could please view and share this important message #OpenYourEyestoFarmSafety