Ep 9: Farm Safety with Safe Ag Systems

EPISODE 9:

In this episode we’re talking about the agtech that is helping producers improve their farm safety and compliance.

We speak to FarmSafe Australia chair Felicity Richards about how agtech is supporting behavioural changes on farm.

We’re also joined by Safe Ag Systems CEO and co-founder Katy Landt. Katy started Safe Ag Systems with her mother, Caroline Graham. She tells us that to encourage adoption they built their software to improve both safety procedures and operational efficiencies.

And we’ll chat to independent safety consultant Joanne Hamilton-Vale who has used SafeAg Systems with dozens of clients, from family farms with one employee to large corporates.

FEATURING:

FELICITY RICHARDS – FARMSAFE AUSTRALIA CHAIR

Felicity and her husband Mark manage a beef enterprise across Tasmanian properties at Flinders Island, Wynyard and near Launceston. In the family business, the demands of three small children and an enthusiasm for process, data collection and analysis has seen Felicity take on a largely administrative role. She heads the combined departments of Human Resources, Accounting, Workplace Health and Safety, Compliance and Risk. Felicity juggles her family and farm responsibilities with chairing the Tasmanian Biosecurity Advisory Committee and Farmsafe Australia. She has completed the Tasmanian Leaders I-Lead program and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Foundations of Directorship.

KATY LANDT – SAFE AG SYSTEMS CEO AND CO-FOUNDER

Katy is a fifth-generation family-farm producer across the broad-acre cropping business, Watervalley Farms. After a near miss on the family farm, she felt an obligation to simplify safety without impacting productivity or causing frustration to those on the farm. Wanting to help enhance the progress of the industry’s attitude towards safety culture, Katy invested her time in growing her skills in product development, knowledge around safety and compliance and Tech solutions. Driven by this experience and knowledge, Katy co-founded Safe Ag Systems which provides software management solutions for agribusinesses, with her mother, Caroline Graham.

JOANNE HAMILTON-VALE – INDEPENDENT FARM SAFETY CONSULTANT

Jo started her career in Safety and Agriculture employed as a HR officer for an agribusiness, training as a qualified Internal Auditor and Compliance Officer. With a wealth of knowledge and experience as a user, now as a consultant, Jo understands farmers are time poor and this is where she becomes an asset to their business. She has worked with dozens of growers from family farms with one employee to large corporate operations.