Farmer driven attitude change the key to improving safety

Gregor Heard
Updated June 27 2018 - 4:01pm, first published June 24 2018 - 6:00am
Warwickshire farmer Jim Chapman has studied farm safety as part of a Nuffield Scholarship. He believes cultural change, not more regulation is the key to improving safety outcomes.
Warwickshire farmer Jim Chapman has studied farm safety as part of a Nuffield Scholarship. He believes cultural change, not more regulation is the key to improving safety outcomes.

BURDENING farmers with onerous compliance regulations is not the way to improving farm safety according to an English Nuffield Scholar who travelled internationally studying the topic of safety in agriculture.

Gregor Heard

Gregor Heard

National Grains Industry Reporter

Gregor Heard is ACM's national grains industry reporter, based in Horsham, Victoria. He has a wealth of knowledge surrounding the cropping sector through his 15 years in the role. Prior to that he was with the Fairfax network as a reporter with Stock & Land. Some of the major issues he has reported on during his time with the company include the deregulation of the export wheat market, the introduction of genetically modified crops and the fight to protect growers better from grain trader insolvencies. Still involved with the family farm he is passionate about rural Australia and its people and hopes to use his role to act as an advocate for those involved in the grain sector.

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