An emergency quad bike text message system won the ABP Farm Safety award at the 2019 BT young scientist award for secondary school students Adam Straub and Timmy Galvin from St Brogan’s College, Bandon, Co Cork.

The project entitled “Q.E.A.D: Quad Emergency Alert Device”, sends out an emergency text message containing the co-ordinates of a quad and a location on Google maps in the event a quad is flipped over.

Martin Kane, the managing director of ABP Ireland, said that the project “captured the ethos of the category”.

“Quad bikes are a common sight on Irish farms so this safety project is very relevant,” Kane said.

“Unfortunately, farm safety is still very much an issue in Ireland and more attention needs to be given to it, as has been indicated by the figures released by the HSA concerning farming deaths last year.”

Farmers are nine times more likely to be killed at work compared with the national average, figures from the HSA show.

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