Make your ‘Farm Safety Pledge’: Winners Announced

12th May 2017

As we gear up for the summer holidays, Zurich and Dairygold are asking primary schools (5^th and 6^th class) to make their ‘Farm Safety Pledge’ to stay safe over the summer.

Choose your theme – design a farm safety poster based on one of these key themes:

• Machinery – e.g. quad bikes; PTO; tractor buckets; trailers.
• Tractors – e.g. hi vis vests; seat belts; passenger seats.
• Animals – e.g. cow/calf; bull; horse.
• Farmyard – tidy yard; chemical shed; signage; hay shed; slurry pits; animal sheds.

Make your pledge: include your ‘Farm Safety Pledge’ in your poster design.

 My ‘Farm Safety Pledge’ – I am farm safe when I ……………

Examples:

• wear a hi vis vest when visiting the farm,
• keep back from a cow and her calf
• keep away from slurry,
• don’t climb on bales,
• don’t walk behind the horse
• don’t play in the farmyard,
• keep away from moving tractors,
• read the safety signs

Post your entry:

• Include the theme of your poster, your name, age, class, school address, school phone number on your entry.
• Post your entry to – My Farm Safety Pledge, Dairygold Co-Operative Society Ltd., Clonmel Road, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork.

Closing date:

• Get your entries in by 14^th June 2017.

Prizes:

Conditions

• Competition is open to all Primary Schools 5^th & 6^th classes.
• Entries to state what theme the poster is following and to include the ‘Farm Safety Pledge’.
• Poster size A4
• You can use any art medium to create your poster
• Winners will be announced 22^nd June 2017.
• Judges decision is final.
• Only one entry will be accepted from each entrant in this competition.
• All entries become the property of Dairygold and Zurich Insurance and entrants agree to allow Dairygold and Zurich Insurance to promote their work at a future date.
• Zurich Insurance plc is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.

Need further information:

Email your questions to marketcomm@zurich.ie.

Thank you to AgriKids for the use of their “Beware of the Bull” illustration from ‘Tales from Riverside Farm’.

Winners of the Farm Safety poster competitions are:

1st Prize – St Lachteens, Donoughmore, Co.Cork- Ciara Fox

2nd Prize – Rathduff N.S,  Grenagh, Co. Cork- Emily Twomey

3rd Prize – Scoil Muir Gan Small, New Inn, Cashel, Co. Tipperary- Clara Matthia

4th Prize – Baltydaniel N.S, Newtwopothouse, Mallow, Co.Cork- Anna Coleman

5th Prize – Oristown N.S, Kells, Co.Meath- Paul Cooney

6th Prize – Cannon Sheehan N.S, Turnpike, Doneraile, Co.Cork- Sarah Flynn

7th Prize -Bennekerry N.S, Co.Carlow- John O’Connor

8th Prize – St Mary’s Snr. N.S, Dunmanway, Co.Cork- Ciara Kate O’ Farrell

Stay farm safe this summer