An industry that understands risks and how to avoid or manage them, where a fatality is a rare occurrence and health and safety is seen as integral to good business management. That's the vision of the Health and Safety Executive and also those organisations that have come together to form the industry-led Farm Safety Partnership. But the statistics show we've got a long way to go to achieving that. There has been a decrease in fatalities over the past few decades, but we're now on a plateau where die fatality rate remains stubbornly high compared with that of other industries. Agriculture accounts for only around 1.4% of the workforce, but up to one in five work-related fatalities.
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