News & Updates

What began as a quick repair outdoors turned into excruciating burns and hospital treatment. David Hayes shares his experience to highlight why proper welding gear and careful job prep are essential on every farm.

For many farmers, the most debilitating injuries do not happen in an instant; they build up quietly over years of repetitive heavy lifting, overloading, and toughing it out. Calf rearer LeAnne Blakelock shares how cumulative physical strain took a heavy toll on her body, and why shifting priorities to design smarter systems and put personal recovery first is the key to farming for longer.

Working across steep, rolling hill country means quad bike safety is never something to take for granted. To protect their team, Dairy Holdings fitted Fleetpin’s Safetrax GPS Rollover Safety System. With real-time slope warnings and immediate SOS tracking, the technology provides a vital lifeline when every minute counts.

Safer Farms has launched its Annual Farmer and Grower Survey, calling on farmers, growers and their teams to share what's really happening on farm when it comes to health, safety and wellbeing – with every response going in the draw to win 1 of 4 prizes worth $2,000.

Safer Farms is celebrating a sharp decline in farm-related ACC injury claims, highlighting the impact of practical, farmer-led decisions across New Zealand. Safer Farms ambassador Lindy Nelson credits this progress to the everyday choices made by rural teams to design preventable harm out of agriculture.

Safer Farms ambassador Lindy Nelson has won the Leadership category at the 2026 New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards. This national recognition highlights her practical, farmer-led approach to shifting safety culture and her instrumental role in launching the sector-wide Farm without Harm strategy.

Safer Farms has launched a new white paper at Fieldays, Safer By Design: The Role of Technology in Farm Safety, exploring how technology can remove agricultural risks before work even begins.

Safer Farms ambassador Lindy Nelson’s dedication to rethinking how the primary sector workstogether to reduce harm on farm has been recognised with a finalist place in the New Zealand Workplace Health and Safety Awards for 2026.

Safer Farms’ Regional Champions are putting Crush Protection Devices (CPDs) through their paces and sharing their first-hand experiences with other farmers. Hawke’s Bay farmer Chloe Butcher-Herries and Wairarapa sheep and beef farmer Roger Barton have fitted CPDs onto their quad bikes as part of Safer Farms’ Safer Rides programme.

What Farmers Need to Know Before May 10. Last week Safer Farms hosted a crucial webinar with WorkSafe New Zealand about two draft Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs) currently open for public consultation. This is your opportunity to shape guidance affecting your farming operation. You don't need to review the entire documents - focus on sections relevant to you and provide honest, practical feedback.

Safer Farms recently hosted a webinar for members and put out a survey to our database to seek feedback on the proposed Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill. View the submission we have made on behalf of our members and farming community.

Safer Farms is proud to introduce our first three Regional Champions that will be taking the Farm Without Harm message directly into the rural community.

Early in February the Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill passed its first reading and is now open for public submissions. The draft legislation is a significant change to the health and safety regime that currently operates in New Zealand.

Southland farmer Murray Donald has been appointed as chair of Safer Farms, the industry-led organisation focused on reducing harm, injuries and fatalities in the agricultural sector.

Farmers are being invited to share their two cents on farm safety to be in the draw to win one of two $200 vouchers.

Thank you to everyone who came along yesterday to our workshop in Ōtautahi Christchurch to look at how we can see less harm on our farms.

Safer Farms is proud to support season 58 of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year finals, across the country.

Following our Safety Alert about the risks of waratah rammers, Safer Farms member Dairy Holdings shared what they have done to make these tools safer on farm.

Summer’s here, and that means a busy time on the farm. It’s also when we see a spike in farm injuries. We’ve pulled together some handy reminders from farmers across New Zealand to keep top of mind this summer.

Safer Farms Chair Lindy Nelson was featured in the latest issue of Safeguard. Read her interview here.

Safer Farms has partnered with ACC to create these 'Have a Hmmm' videos for the farming industry. Otago sheep & beef farmer Emma, and Southland dairy farmer Jon, take us through some Have A Hmmm moments on farm.

Farmers are being urged to “take a moment” as the sector heads into the traditional peak period for injuries and fatalities. Safer Farms, the industry-led organisation dedicated to fostering a safer farming culture across New Zealand, is encouraging farmers to pause, think through a plan, share it with others and set the job up right before getting underway.

Safer Farms attended The Canterbury Show last week, taking the opportunity to connect with the rural community.

Take part in our Annual Farmer and Grower Survey, and be in to win one of five great prizes.

The Safer Rides initiative, which offered farmers heavily discounted crush protection devices (CPDs) for quad bikes, has made a significant impact in raising awareness and action around farm vehicle safety, according to a new report.

Potatoes NZ hosted a webinar with Safer Farms, to learn more about what we do, and what resources are available to growers.

Safer Farms will be attending the Canterbury A&P show this year, 13-15 November.

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.