The Dept of Labour is urging farmers to be more concerned with safety as it investigates three fatal crashes on Waitaki Valley farms and a serious accident in South Otago in just over a month says the ODT. The department's Otago workplace services manager, Mark Murray, said while unusual statistically to have so many fatal accidents in one area at one time, it was coincidental.Mr Murray said the message of workplace safety needed to be emphasised regularly. Two of the three Waitaki fatalities involved all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and the third a motorcycle. Mr Murray said there were three areas of safety which needed to be addressed with vehicles: whether they were fit and proper for the purpose for which they were intended, were safety features working and were users trained for the terrain on which the vehicles would be used.
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