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Workplace safety Minister Michael Woodhouse has described the old legislation on workplace safety as a “bugger’s muddle”. 

Farmers are anxious about what the health and safety reform will bring and the new challenges that lie on the horizon. 

In April two people died on farms in ‘workplace’ deaths – one was a boy aged 14. And in Waikato in April a toddler nearly drowned in dairy farm effluent. 

The ban on passengers on quads is inhibiting farmers getting good professional advice, says a Gisborne farmer, Mark Gemmell.

With the annual ‘big move’ of Gypsy Day not too far away, it might be timely to give your farm transport a once over for the new season. 

Clic Wheel Systems quotes farmers John and Deborah McIntyre, of Nuhaka, Hawke’s Bay, as saying that anyone who feels strongly about the safe use of quads should be fitting dual wheels.

Between 2009 and 2014 there were 241 workplace fatalities in New Zealand.

Tainui Group Holdings manages the commercial assets of the Waikato-Tainui people. With a diverse portfolio that includes the likes of hotels in Hamilton and Auckland airport, to an involvement in healthcare, its vision extends out to 50 years.

Farmers and farming organisations had better focus their energy on keeping safe on their farms, rather than getting into debates on whether children should be banned from riding as passengers on quads.

Beef + Lamb NZ and WorkSafe NZ are at odds over some aspects of quad safety.