Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what steps have been taken by the Health and Safety Executive to promote its guidance on safety on farms.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has responsibility for the regulation of health and safety standards on Great Britain’s (GB) farms. All of HSE’s guidance on farm safety is available free of charge via the HSE website (http://www.hse.gov.uk/agriculture/index.htm). Selected pieces of guidance, with links to the website, are shared widely via partner organisations such as the National Farmers Unions and the members of GB’s Farm Safety Partnerships, are given direct to farmers at HSE’s agricultural compliance events and are subject to wide publicity through a social media campaign linked to HSE’s current farm inspection activity.