Proposals are being sought for projects that promote children’s and young person’s safety awareness on farms for the next five years.
Funding of €200,000 is being provided from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) dedicated farm safety budget for 2025, with an option to extend the contract for a further four years. This tender will support initiatives that have the potential to make a real impact on farm safety and reduce the number of fatal and serious non-fatal incidents involving children and young people on Irish farms.
The successful initiatives must be delivered by November 2025.
The tender has been posted on the eTenders website (Reference 5887881) with a closing date of 2:00 pm, Monday 14th July 2025.
This request for tenders will support initiatives that promote a lifelong culture of farm safety from a young age. The successful initiatives will make an important contribution to changing attitudes to safety on Irish farms, not only by increasing farm safety awareness among children and young people, but also by encouraging conversations about farm safety among all generations in farming families.
Statistics from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) show that 17 people under 18 years of age have died on Irish farms, accounting for almost 10% of all fatalities on farms. Children and young people are particularly vulnerable on farms as the workplace surrounds the family home.
For further information on farm safety visit: www.gov.ie/farmsafety.
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