The Safe Farm project aims to stimulate safer farm practice among farm families and foster cultural and behavioural change towards fam safety at farm level. The

The Safe Farm project aims to stimulate safer farm practice among farm families and foster cultural and behavioural change towards fam safety at farm level. The beneficiaries of the project can be defined as direct (within the project delivery period) and indirect (beyond the project period).

The direct   beneficiaries include:

• 200 farmers who participate in the training programme. Farmers who engage in the programme will benefit by improving their awareness of risks, their knowledge of their obligations as farmers and/or employers and encouraging them to take action to improve health and safety;
• Wider farm families and employees of the 200 farmers who participate in training; &
• Members of Operational Group will learn from the delivery of the project. The indirect beneficiaries include:
• All farmers in Dairygold (who may benefit from the learning from the project and further roll out after this project);
• All farmers who may benefit from the roll-out of the training programme developed in this project, if other entities fund such roll-out;
• Reducing the stress and trauma for farmers and their families in dealing with the aftermath of accidents;
• Other training deliverers will benefit from the resource material developed as part of this project;
• Wider industry can learn from the experiences of this project
• Health and Safety Authority and policy makers will learn from the experiences of the project, providing insights for future actions in this area and roll-out to the wider farming public; &
• Dairygold Cooperative will benefit from the development of specific targeted training programmes, becoming an industry leader in farm health  and safety.