About this episode

Felicity Richards discusses key considerations and practical steps for improving farm safety.

Every year lives are lost and families are changed forever by incidents on farm. Felicity Richards, Chair of Farmsafe Australia and a beef farmer from Northern Tasmania, brings both lived experience and a national perspective to farm safety. In this episode we dig into some key considerations around farm safety, major contributors to safety incidents, and look at some practical steps that can be taken to keep people safe. Vegalogue is the podcast from AUSVEG, the peak body for Australia’s veg...

People in this episode

Host: AUSVEG

Guest: Felicity Richards

Topics covered

• farm safety
• advocacy
• agriculture
• safety incidents
• practical steps

Keywords

• farm safety
• Farmsafe Australia
• agriculture
• safety incidents
• Northern Tasmania

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Farmsafe Australia

Places: Northern Tasmania

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