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measures to prevent them,” Dr Lee insisted.

Pat Griffin of the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) said that a series of new measures were under consideration by the various government departments to tackle the farm injury situa- tion. These measures included farm safety modules within the various knowledge transfer schemes operated by the Department of Agriculture’s 600 accredited advisers nationwide.

In addition, he stressed that new money for farm safety advertising campaigns and joint campaigns with the Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland were in the pipeline.

These campaigns would be rural specific and run through agri-industry publications as well as local press and radio stations.

Mr Griffin believes that the Teagasc knowledge transfer (KT) groups were possibly the best way to get the safety messages across.

The possibility of linking these KT courses to the farm payment — which is already occurring to an extent within the TAMS scheme — would