Rural Compliance

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The Rural Compliance Team offer a fully comprehensive service, to ensure clients are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws, policies and regulations. This may include Cross Compliance, Farm Assurance and Health and Safety (but can be personalised to suit your requirements!).

Clients can expect farm visits, continually updated paperwork, inspection attendance and advice by phone call or email at any time.

Service Overview

Health and Safety Service

Farming remains one of the most hazardous industries and protecting yourself and your employees is invaluable. Also, having up to date health and safety documentation is increasingly important, as more purchasers and farm assurers require it.

Our team will provide the following documents (where applicable to your farming business) and following the initial setup process will continue to keep you up to date as required.

  • Health and Safety Policy
  • Risk Assessments
  • Employee and Contractor Handbooks
  • Induction and Appraisal records
  • Vehicle Checklists
  • Hazard Maps including farmyard and fields.
  • Emergency Planning
  • COSHH Assessments
  • Covid 19 Policy

Farm Assurance Service

Assuring bodies are continually expanding the requirements of schemes but offering little assistance to their members. Our team can help you and your business cope with changes to ensure stress free inspections. The service includes the following:

  • Assistance with collating, creating and updating paperwork
  • Providing templates
  • Pre-audit farmyard inspections
  • Inspection attendance
  • Ensuring you are up to date with new requirements

Cross Compliance

Cross Compliance inspections from the Rural Payments Agency are increasingly common and can happen with very little notice.  Our team will ensure you satisfy the requirements to help protect your business from non-compliances and substantial fines. This can include:

  • Nitrate Vulnerable Zone Calculations
  • Manure Management Plans
  • Drainage Plans
  • Slurry Storage Calculations
  • Field Application Records
  • Soil Risk Maps
  • SSAFO
  • Derogations – including grassland and hedge cutting.

Other services

To help meet your business needs we can provide additional services to help make a difference to you and your employees.

  • Human Resources
    Including employment contracts, staff appraisals etc.
  • Employee Training
    Including organising internal and external courses.
  • Waste Licencing
    Including Waste Exemptions and Waste Carriers.
  • Compliance Advice
    Including a range of topics and diversification (e.g. business units, farm shops, vending machines)

Contact us now to arrange a free initial site visit to provide more information and how the Rural Compliance Team can suit you and your farming business. Our office contact details are here

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