The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is to undertake 600 inspections in October, with a focus on falls from height and falling objects on the farm, the Irish Farmers Journal can reveal.

The inspections are to be focused on a county within a region where there has been more than three fatal farm accidents.

For counties that do not meet this criteria, inspectors will be assigned to counties with trends of fatal accidents.

News of the October inspection campaign comes as Farm Safety Week is rolled out across the country.

Between 2007 and 2017, 214 people lost their lives while on Irish farms.