Vets: Help Complete BEVA’s New Risk Assessment Guide

The association is asking for BEVA members’ feedback to ensure the guide is as relevant and useful as possible.
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The British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) has produced a draft guide to help veterinarians manage horse-related risks in practice and is asking for members’ feedback to ensure the guide is as relevant and useful as possible.

The draft guide was published on the BEVA website during Congress 2016. The initiative is in response to the report showing that equine veterinarians have the highest injury risk of all civilian professions.

The report on work-related injuries in equine practice was commissioned by BEVA in 2014. The results indicated that an equine veterinarian could expect to sustain between seven and eight work-related injuries that impeded them from practicing during a 30-year working life. Data available from the Health and Safety Executive suggest that veterinarians working in equine practice in the U.K., thus, sustain a very high number of injuries compared to other civilian occupations, including those working in the construction industry, prison service, and the fire brigade.

The report has prompted BEVA to raise awareness of these risks within the equine industry and to look at ways of ways of making equine veterinary practice safer. The first step is the production of a risk assessment guide for practices. The guide is currently in draft form and BEVA members are invited to add their comments and suggestions via the website at beva.org.uk/workplacesafety

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