Calls for teachers to make farm safety presentations to pupils
23 children have lost their lives in farm accidents in the past decade in Ireland.
The Health and Safety Authority is asking primary schools to help prevent children from being seriously injured or dying in farm accidents this summer.
23 children have lost their lives in farm accidents in the past ten years - three of these children died on Cork farms last year...
School holidays are a high risk time for children and primary schools are being asked to make safety presentations before the summer break.
Machinery, tractors and slurry pits in particular pose high risks.
CEO of the Health and Safety Authority Martin O'Halloran says child fatalities on farms have been increasing:
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