Prevention

The Law on the farmers' social insurance obliges KRUS to run activity which aims at prevention of work injuries in agriculture and farmers' professional diseases.
Preventive activity of KRUS concentrates on searching causes and circumstances of the accidents at work in agriculture and also on spreading knowledge on threats and principles of safe work among the insured.
The President of the KRUS has established - The Principles of Health and Life Protection on the Farm, which were distributed among all the insured persons. KRUS, in cooperation with General Inspector of Labour and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has published the list of the most dangerous works and acts on the farm that can't be performed by children under 15. Training and courses for farmers, organized by KRUS, and also publications, films, competitions, displays, popularization of the principles of safe work in media - serve to improve the level of farmers' knowledge on safe work.

At the same time the Fund (KRUS) makes efforts to be sure that the technical means which are distributed to farms are safe; the Fund also helps producers promote the products that are instrumental for safety at work. President of KRUS awards the fair prizes "KRUS safety Mark" and the statue DOBROSŁAW - "Product which improves safety of work on the farm" to the safest products.
The Fund informs farmers of those awarded products by means of the slogan: It's worth buying..
The Fund takes regressive and preventive action against the producers whose products cause accidents at work. The Fund demands the change of product's construction as well as return of compensations for injury paid to farmers.

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