Farm Safety Week 2026.

Shockingly, between April 2025 and March 2026, there were 33 confirmed fatal incidents on farms, which is around 22 times higher than the average industry rate. What’s more, in 2024 alone almost 600 farm-related incidents were reported. The farming community play a huge part in industry, however, their safety record is the poorest.

For the past 14 years, from 21 - 25 July, Yellow Wellies, The Farm Safety Foundation founded by the National Farmers Union (NFU), as part of National Farm Safety Week, have worked to raise awareness and address the attitudes and behaviours to farm safety and poor mental health amongst the farming community.

This time of year is a particularly busy period for farmers where exhaustion will be high. The Take 5 Stay Alive campaign promotes farmers to take five minutes to evaluate the task being undertaken, or checking in on their own wellbeing to make their work safer. When evaluating the task being undertaken, the Ride Smart Farm Safe campaign spreads the message to farmers to always wear a helmet, ensure that they the appropriate training for the task, carrying out regular vehicle and maintenance checks and for ATVs to be driven by a single rider.

The young farming community are at the forefront of ensuring that farm safety, physical and mental wellbeing continues to improve going forward. So much so that the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (NFYFC) have developed two workshops that can be delivered to clubs focussed on farm safety (Farm Safety and Minding Your Head), as well as the annual Farm Machinery Skills competition that allows members to demonstrate their knowledge of farm machinery and how to use it safely, along with their first aid skills.

Lanyon Bowdler continues to work closely with the NFU to ensure that the farming community have access to a wide range of legal services.