Farm Safety – OSH issues

Introduction

Farmland accounts for 42 % of the European territory[1] and plays an important part in the economic, cultural and political life of Europe. In 2020, there were 9.1 million agricultural holdings in the EU. Most of the farms are located in Romania (31.8 %), followed by Poland (14.4 %), Italy (12.5 %) and Spain (10.1 %). The vast majority of the EU's farms are family farms. Family farms are farms on which 50 % or more of the regular agricultural labour force is provided by family members. Between 2005 and 2020, the number of farms in the EU fell by about 37%, equivalent to the loss of 5.3 million farms, the vast majority (about 87%) of which are small farms of…