Trouw Nutrition Ireland has become the latest organisation to join the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) Farm Safety Partnership (FSP).
The FSP aims to increase farm safety awareness and to reduce work-related fatalities and injuries on Northern Ireland’s farms.
Affiliates are businesses or organisations that operate in Northern Ireland, who formally support the work of the partnership and help promote safety messages to the local farming community.
Affiliates must demonstrate that they are involved in at least two of the following areas to obtain status:
- By providing safety training;
- Providing farm safety advisory services;
- Running schemes to promote best practice in relation to safety on farms;
- Providing incentives to encourage safe working;
- Providing discounts or subsidies for safety related equipment or services;
- Sponsorship of activities or events designed to improve farm safety;
- Assisting the FSP in other ways in delivering its action plan.
Under the partnership organisations commit to providing an annual review detailing the planned activities carried out throughout the year, which work towards improving farm safety.
There are 19 other members of the affiliate scheme so far, including Lakeland Dairies; Livestock & Meat Commission NI; and Tilly Trailer Pass Ltd.
Northern Ireland Safety Group and Northern Health and Social Care Trust are also affiliate members.
New members, Trouw Nutrition specialises in the development of innovative feed technologies, premixes and nutritional services for animal nutrition.
It guides farmers towards a circular agriculture system that uses land and resources more sustainably.
The company has also developed a corporate roadmap towards sustainability for 2025.
It has a presence in 105 countries, including one of which located in Belfast.
