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Lorries queue, the conveyor keeps running and whoever is about takes the telescopic handler, on ground that is rarely flat. PHW assesses your people on your own machines, on your own farm, and writes down who is competent.
A worker's clothing was caught in a running conveyor. The film shows what that means for a farm like yours, and how assessing your people on your own site answers it.
Sound on. Captions are built in. Read the transcript on the film's own page.
Up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic.
A farmer or an agricultural contractor running a telescopic handler, a rough terrain forklift and an ATV, with family, regular staff and seasonal workers all taking a turn on them. PHW comes to your farm and assesses each person on the machine they actually use.
What goes wrong on a working farm.
Farm yards, fields and grain stores rarely offer the flat, prepared surface a warehouse does, which changes the stability and load-handling risk for both telescopic handlers and rough terrain forklifts.
An unguarded conveyor, auger or roller is a trap for clothing and hands, and the temptation is to look at a noise without stopping the machine first. That is what happened in the case in the film above.
Chainsaws, strimmers, and vibrating hand tools used across a working week build up vibration exposure over a working week that needs monitoring and control.
Grain stores, silos and farm building roofs all carry a fall risk that needs planning before anyone goes up, not after.
Feed bags, tools and equipment moved by hand remain a steady source of injury alongside the machinery risks.
The regulations behind each risk.
PUWER 1998 regulation 9 puts the duty on the employer to make sure everyone who uses work equipment, and anyone who supervises or manages its use, has received adequate training. The Approved Code of Practice L117, rider-operated lift trucks, sets out the training model for rider-operated lift trucks.
PUWER 1998 regulation 11 requires measures to prevent access to dangerous parts of machinery, or to stop them before anyone reaches the danger zone. Fixed guards come first where they are practicable.
The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 set exposure action and limit values for hand-arm vibration.
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 apply to grain stores, silos and farm building roof work.
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 cover feed, tools and equipment moved by hand.
The employer decides who is authorised to use each machine. PHW's certificates, records and packs are the evidence behind that decision.
The machines and packs that fit this trade.
Every person, every machine, the gaps and the refreshers, on one page. Useful when seasonal staff come and go.
View →Yard and vehicle movement, machinery guarding and isolation, telescopic handler authorisation, seasonal risk assessments.
View →The evidence trail HSE or your insurer can ask for, and you can hand over on the day.
How verification works → · Take the one-minute agriculture check →
Tell us the machines, the topics and how many people, and we will come back with dates and a quote.
Get a quoteHSE prosecutions in this line of work.
£5,500 + £5,813 costs · 2026-09-02
An ATV with no doors overturned on a hillside and ejected a passenger, who died at the scene.
Read the case →£53,000 · 2026-05-07
A worker's clothing caught in an unguarded conveyor nip while investigating a noise without stopping the machine, causing serious nerve damage.
Read the case →£27,000 + £11,166 costs · 2026-02-17
A ride-on mower with its roll-over protection removed descended a steep incline into a village pond, killing the operator.
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