News & Updates

Safer Farms, the industry-led organisation dedicated to fostering a safer farming culture, supports the Government’s targeted consultation with farmers and theagriculture sector to ensure health and safety rules reflect the reality of life on New Zealand farms.

Safer Farms wrote a guest blog post for Yellow Wellies in the UK during their 2025 Farm Safety Week about the experiences of health & safety on New Zealand farms.

Former rally driver and sheep farmer Rhys Gardner has poured the knowledge he has gained from those careers into developing three-dimensional virtual reality (VR) experiences of operating vehicles in ‘real life’ situations. Now he’s teamed up with Safer Farms to provide that technology for farmers to experience at the upcoming Mystery Creek Fieldays® from 11-14 June.

ACC and Safer Farms have announced a new partnership to reduce harm, injuries, and fatalities in the agricultural sector.

Farmers are being encouraged to share their first-hand experiences about reducing harm on farms, particularly when using vehicles.

In this Up Our Game workshop, we continued the discussion around having good safety conversations on farm.

This Up Our Game Workshop focused on having good safety conversations. A key insight from this session was that health and safety is the outcome of great work.

Our first Farm without Harm 'Up Our Game' webinar focused on “Where to start?”. We took it right back to basics, asking our panellists what good calls we can be making at the beginning of every day to protect our people.

In 2023, Safer Farms held an online hui to support and enable farmers to make good calls when it comes to on-farm safety for our children.

A message to members to wrap 2022

It was an absolute delight to see so many of our members attend the Safer Farms members hui in person in Wellington.

Safer Farms is reinforcing the value of crush protection devices (CPDs) on quad bikes and urging farmers to take advantage of a cash back offer.