At last week’s ICOS conference, risk manager with FBD Ciaran Roche outlined the main causes of liability claims at marts:

  • Injury caused by livestock (kick, crush, impact, attack) while loading, unloading, penning and in passageways.
  • Member of the public or an employee hit by a gate.
  • Member of the public slips/trips/falls.
  • Radical change

    He said that mart management needs to ask itself are they prepared to implement and enforce radical change so as to reverse the upward trend in the number and severity of serious accidents in marts?