The Livestock Auctioneers’ Association (LAA) has launched MartSafe, a new initiative providing practical advice, guidance and training on health and safety for auctioneers and livestock auction market personnel across England and Wales, in collaboration with professional health and safety consultants, Safety Sanctuary Limited.
The initiative focuses across four key areas; safe people, safe vehicles, safe places, safe handling, using the #HammerItHome hashtag to raise awareness throughout the industry on social media.
Accessed via a Members Area of the LAA website, the MartSafe guidance includes a Health & Safety Guide for Livestock Auction Markets in England and Wales, as well as checklists, templates and model policies, including social media resources to encourage safer thinking throughout the industry.
Discussing the launch of MartSafe, LAA Development Officer Zanna Dennis explains, “The LAA works to ensure that Livestock Auction Markets throughout England and Wales are working to the highest standards of health and safety and animal welfare, and complete and accurate traceability.
“Identifying and recognising the challenges met by those operating markets, we have created MartSafe to provide LAA members with practical advice and guidance, to ensure every market is kept safe, including staff and those visiting and using livestock markets.
“We hope this initiative will not only provide practical advice and guidance to ensure every market is a safe place of work but will also highlight everyone’s responsibility to act and operate safely in the market environment by raising awareness on social media via the hashtag #HammerItHome.”
